And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.
- KJV And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
- BSB On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- 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 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
- Exod 23:15You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
- Exod 12:15–17“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Deut 16:3–8You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Exod 34:18“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Exod 13:6Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
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