On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- KJV And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
- NKJV And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
- NASB Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- NLT On the next day, the fifteenth day of the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This festival to the Lord continues for seven days, and during that time the bread you eat must be made without yeast.
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Quick answer
On the fifteenth day begins the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, during which only unleavened bread is eaten.
Overview
Following Passover, this feast recalled the haste of the Exodus, when there was no time to let dough rise (Exodus 12:39). Removing leaven came to symbolize putting away sin. Paul urges believers to keep the feast 'with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,' having been cleansed by Christ (1 Corinthians 5:7-8).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Exod 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Deut 16:8For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
- Exod 12:15–16For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
- Exod 13:6–7For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- Acts 12:3–4And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- Num 28:17–18On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
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