Exodus 13:10
in Exodus 13Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
KJV
Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
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This verse in Exodus 13
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThou shall therefore keep the ordinance in his season,.... Not the ordinance of the phylacteries, as the Targum of Jonathan, but the ordinance of unleavened bread: from year to year; every year successively, so long as in force, even unto the coming of the Messiah.
This site's exposition
this statute at the appointed time
on Exodus 13:10-11
The statute is fixed to its season year after year, so the calendar carries the memory. Verse 11 rests the rule on an oath sworn to the fathers, which sends the reader back to Genesis 15:18 and 17:8.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Mi-yamim yamimah (from year to year) is similar to yamim tiheyeh ge’ullato (for a full year shall he have the right of redemption (Lev.:29).
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
You must preserve this statute in its appointed time, from year to year.
This is stated because the law of that which “openeth the womb” [mentioned in Verse 12], applied only from the time they came to the Land of Israel. 391 See my Hebrew commentary p. 344 for correctness of this reading as based on Ramban manuscript.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֛ | veshamarta | and you will keep | H8104 → | 468 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַחֻקָּ֥ה | hachukah | the statute | H2708 → | 104 times |
| הַזֹּ֖את | hazot | <the> this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| לְמוֹעֲדָ֑הּ | lemoadah | to appointed time its | H4150 → | 223 times |
| מִיָּמִ֖ים | miyamim | from days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| יָמִֽימָה׃ ס | yamimah | days towards | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֛and you will keep
veshamartaH8104 →468 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַחֻקָּ֥הthe statute
hachukahH2708 →104 times
הַזֹּ֖את<the> this
hazotH2063 →603 times
לְמוֹעֲדָ֑הּto appointed time its
lemoadahH4150 →223 times
מִיָּמִ֖יםfrom days
miyamimH3117 →2304 times
יָמִֽימָה׃ סdays towards
yamimahH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 23:21
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
- Exodus 12:24
And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
- Exodus 12:17
So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute…
- Exodus 13:9–10
It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the…
- 1 Corinthians 5:7–8
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- 2 Kings 23:21
Through
Exodus 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was…
it leads to
- Exodus 34:20
You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No…
- Luke 22:7
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- Exodus 34:20
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About Exodus
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.