Bible Strands
Exodus 13:6
For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God commands Moses and the Israelites to eat unleavened bread for seven days and hold a feast to Yahweh on the seventh day, a practice to be observed when they enter the land of Canaan.
The words — The Hebrew word חַג (chag) literally means a festival or appointed feast, and מַצּוֹת (matzot) specifies the unleavened bread required for the meal.
The thread — The seven-day unleavened bread mandate reappears in Exodus 12:15 and Exodus 34:18, both tying the observance to a specific month and the removal of leaven.
Why it lands — The text imposes a fixed dietary boundary for seven days, requiring the community to mark the period with a designated feast to Yahweh.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
Cross-references
- Exodus 12:15 For 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.
- Exodus 34:18 You 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.
- Leviticus 23:8 For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”