And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
- BSB On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- NKJV And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
- NASB On the fifteenth day of this month there shall be a feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
- NLT On the following day—the fifteenth day of the month—a joyous, seven-day festival will begin, but no bread made with yeast may be eaten.
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Quick answer
The fifteenth day began the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, when Israel ate bread without leaven to recall the haste of the exodus.
Overview
Joined to Passover, the week of unleavened bread commemorated the hurried departure from Egypt and called Israel to put away corruption. Removing leaven dramatized a clean break with the old life of bondage. The New Testament applies this to believers, calling them to keep the feast 'with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth,' cleansed by Christ (1 Corinthians 5:8).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Lev 23:6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
- Exod 23:15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
- Exod 12:15–17Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Deut 16:3–8Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
- Exod 34:18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
- Exod 13:6Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
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