“On the fourteenth day of the first month, you must celebrate the Passover. This festival will last for seven days. The bread you eat during that time must be made without yeast.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- KJV In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- BSB On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- NKJV “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- NASB “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
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Quick answer
In the first month, on the fourteenth day, Israel is to keep the Passover, a seven-day feast with unleavened bread.
Overview
The vision preserves the central feast of Passover, commemorating Israel's redemption from Egypt. Unleavened bread recalls the haste of deliverance and the call to purity. Passover supremely foreshadows Christ, our Passover Lamb sacrificed for us, whose death brings the true and final redemption (1 Corinthians 5:7).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Lev 23:5–8In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- Num 28:16–25“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Num 9:2–14“Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Exod 12:1–51Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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