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Leviticus 23:6

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Leviticus 23

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

These are the LORD’s appointed feasts

on Leviticus 23:4-6

The yearly dates open with two observances on consecutive days. The Passover is one evening, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month, and Unleavened Bread is the week beginning on the fifteenth.

This site's exposition

begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Albert Barnes runs the feast from the fifteenth to the twenty-first, with a sacred assembly on the first day and the last. The seven days of unleavened bread repeat Exodus 12:15. Verses 7 and 8 set the rest and the offerings for the week.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord,.... Which was the day the children of Israel went out of Egypt with their dough and leaven, having not time to leaven it; in remembrance of which this feast was appointed: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread; see Exo 12:15.

How the passage was read

On Leviticus 23:1-44

On Leviticus 23:1-44

The year Israel keeps

This chapter is the calendar of the whole Jewish year, and every feast in it is still on the calendar today. In order: the weekly Sabbath; Passover and Unleavened Bread in spring (now kept as the seder meal and a week without leavened bread); Firstfruits (the first sheaf of barley waved before God); Weeks, in Hebrew Shavuot, fifty days later (Christians know the Greek name: Pentecost); then in autumn the Day of Trumpets (now Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, announced by the ram's-horn trumpet called a shofar), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, the great fast), and Tabernacles, in Hebrew Sukkot, when families still build and eat in leafy backyard booths for a week, remembering the wilderness.

So when the New Testament says Jesus or Paul went up for “the feast,” it means one of these appointments: the same calendar, kept for over three thousand years.

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.

Sources: The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study of all seven) · Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1 (the four new years)

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וּבַחֲמִשָּׁ֨הand [is] on [the] fif-

    uvachamishahH2568 →343 times

  • עָשָׂ֥רteen

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

  • יוֹם֙day

    yomH3117 →2304 times

  • לַחֹ֣דֶשׁof the month

    lachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • חַ֥ג[the] festival of

    chagH2282 →62 times

  • הַמַּצּ֖וֹת<the> unleavened bread<s>

    hamatzotH4682 →53 times

  • לַיהוָ֑הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֥תseven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • יָמִ֖יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • מַצּ֥וֹתunleavened bread<s>

    matzotH4682 →53 times

  • תֹּאכֵֽלוּ׃you will eat

    tokheluH398 →810 times

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

Related verses

12 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 28:17On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.5 worksExodus 34:18You 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.4 works1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.4 worksDeuteronomy 16:8For 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.3 worksExodus 12:15–16For 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.3 worksExodus 13:6–7For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.2 works
The other 6 cross-references, with their words ▾
Acts 12:3–4And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.2 worksExodus 13:10Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.2 works2 Chronicles 30:21The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.2 worksJoshua 5:11The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.2 worksDeuteronomy 16:3You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.2 worksJudges 21:19“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”1 works

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 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…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 13:4

      Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.

    • Deuteronomy 16:1–4

      Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

    • Exodus 13:6–7

      For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

    • Exodus 12:15–20

      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…

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:15–16

      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…

    • Leviticus 23:36

      For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to…

    • Exodus 13:6–8

      For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

    • Numbers 28:17–19

      On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 23 →

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

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