Exodus 34:18

18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.

Exodus 34:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:18

The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep
Which was instituted at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and on that account, and then observed, ( Exodus 12:15 Exodus 12:18 Exodus 12:19 ) ( Exodus 13:6 Exodus 13:7 ) and afterwards repeated, and the month expressed in which they were to keep it, and the reason of it, as it here follows, (See Gill on Exodus 13:15).

Exodus 34:18 In-Context

16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.