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Exodus 13:5

in Exodus 13

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

KJV

And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

This verse in Exodus 13

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
The Canaanites - Five nations only are named in this passage, whereas six are named in Exo 3:8, and ten in the original promise to Abraham, Gen 15:19-21. The first word “Canaanite” is generic, and includes all the Hamite races of Palestine.

This site's exposition

when the LORD brings you into

on Exodus 13:5-7

The feast is tied to a country the people have not seen. Five nations are named here, where 3:8 named six and Genesis 15:19 to 21 named ten.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was not enough that they remembered it, but they must celebrate the memorial of it in that way which God had appointed, and use the instituted means of preserving the remembrance of it. So, under the gospel, we must not only remember Christ, but do this in remembrance of him. Observe, How strict the prohibition of leaven is (

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It was, however, only a prospective observance; we read of only one celebration of the passover during the protracted sojourn in the wilderness [Nu 9:5]; but on their settlement in the promised land, the season was hallowed as a sacred anniversary [Jos 5:10], in conformity with the directions here given.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

When the Lord shall bring thee into the land - Hence it is pretty evident that the Israelites were not obliged to celebrate the Passover, or keep the feast of unleavened bread, till they were brought into the promised land.

The words behind it

26 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְהָיָ֣הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כִֽי־that

    khi-H3588 →4482 times

  • יְבִֽיאֲךָ֣he will bring you

    yeviakhaH935 →2568 times

  • יְהוָ֡הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַֽ֠כְּנַעֲנִיthe Canaanite[s]

    hakenaaniH3669 →73 times

  • וְהַחִתִּ֨יand the Hittite[s]

    vehachitiH2850 →48 times

  • וְהָאֱמֹרִ֜יand the Amorite[s]

    vehaemoriH567 →87 times

  • וְהַחִוִּ֣יand the Hivite[s]

    vehachiviH2340 →25 times

  • וְהַיְבוּסִ֗יand the Jebusite[s]

    vehayvusiH2983 →41 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֤עhe swore

    nishba'H7650 →186 times

  • לַאֲבֹתֶ֙יךָ֙to ancestors your

    laavoteikhaH1 →1212 times

  • לָ֣תֶתto give

    latetH5414 →2011 times

  • לָ֔ךְto you

    lakh

  • אֶ֛רֶץa land

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • זָבַ֥תflowing of

    zavatH2100 →42 times

  • חָלָ֖בmilk

    chalavH2461 →44 times

  • וּדְבָ֑שׁand honey

    udevashH1706 →54 times

  • וְעָבַדְתָּ֛and you will serve

    veavadtaH5647 →288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעֲבֹדָ֥הthe service

    haavodahH5656 →145 times

  • הַזֹּ֖את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁin the month

    bachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַזֶּֽה׃<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 3:8

    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:24

      Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 15:18–21

      On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    • Exodus 3:17

      And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    • Deuteronomy 1:25

      They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

    • Deuteronomy 8:7–9

      For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

  • Through

    Exodus 3:17

    And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    it leads to

    • Genesis 15:13–21

      Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

  • Through

    Exodus 6:8

    And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 26:3

      Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath…

    • Genesis 15:18

      On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.