Exodus 34:18

18 -- The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from 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 and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 -- Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.

18 -- The feast of the unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 -- All that openeth the womb [is] mine; and all the cattle that is born a male, the firstling of ox and sheep.

20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb; and if thou ransom [it] not, then shalt thou break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt ransom; and none shall appear before me empty.

Footnotes

• [a]. See ch. 13.4.