The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
You must celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, just as I commanded you, during the month of Abib. It was in the month of Abib that you came out of Egypt.
God is commanding the Israelites to celebrate a seven-day festival each year to remember their escape from Egypt, eating bread without yeast just like their ancestors did when they fled.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Exodus, God is giving the Israelites laws through Moses on Mount Sinai after their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, as part of establishing a covenant relationship with them. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was an annual observance to commemorate the hurried departure from Egypt, where the Israelites had to leave quickly and thus ate bread without yeast. This feast was specifically tied to the month of Abib, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, to mark the exact time of their exodus as a perpetual reminder of God's mighty acts.
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