Exodus 34:18

18 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 didst come 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 or take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go fornicating after their gods they shall make thy sons also fornicate after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

18 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 didst come out from Egypt.

19 All that opens the womb is mine; and every firstborn among thy livestock, whether of cow or of sheep, that is male.

20 But the firstborn of an ass thou shalt ransom with a lamb, and if thou ransom him not, then shalt thou cut off his head. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt ransom, and none shall appear before me empty.