Exodus 12:14

Feast of Unleavened Bread

14 'Now 1this day will be 2a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as 3a permanent ordinance.

Exodus 12:14 In-Context

12 'For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments -I am the LORD .
13 'The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 'Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD ; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.
15 'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
16 'On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.

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Cross References 3

  • 1. Exodus 12:6; Leviticus 23:4, 5; 2 Kings 23:21
  • 2. Exodus 13:9
  • 3. Exodus 12:17, 24; Exodus 13:10

Footnotes 1

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