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Leviticus 23:6
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God instructs Moses to convey to Israel the timing of the appointed festivals, placing the Feast of Unleavened Bread immediately after the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
The words — The text uses חַג (chag), meaning festival, and מַצּוֹת (matzot), meaning unleavened breads, to designate the seven-day observance.
The thread — The seven-day unleavened bread observance appears in Exodus 12:15 and Exodus 34:18, while Deuteronomy 16:8 specifies six days for eating unleavened bread alongside a seventh-day solemn assembly.
Why it lands — The verse establishes a fixed calendar boundary for worship, requiring the community to cease leavened bread consumption and observe a sacred assembly without regular work.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
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.
- Deuteronomy 16:8 For 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.
- 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.
- Numbers 28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- Acts 12:3 And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.