Exodus 13:6

6 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day [will be] a feast for Yahweh.

Exodus 13:6 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 13:6

Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread
The Jews

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 gather from this place, and from ( Deuteronomy 16:8 ) , that the obligation to eat unleavened bread lasted no longer than the first night of the seven days, but on the rest it was enough if they abstained from leavened bread, and it was lawful for them to eat of other food as they pleased, (See Gill on Exodus 12:15), but the words are very express in both places, and so in the following verse, for eating unleavened bread, as well as abstaining from leavened; and, indeed, otherwise it would not be so clear and plain a commemoration of their case and circumstances, in which they were when they came out of Egypt; this bread of affliction, as it is called, ( Deuteronomy 16:3 ) being what would put them in mind thereof: and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord;
an holy convocation, in which no work was to be done, except what was necessary for preparing food to eat, see ( Exodus 12:16 ) .
F25 In Siphre apud Manasseh Ben lsrael. Conciliat. in loc.

Exodus 13:6 In-Context

4 Today you are going out in the month of Abib.

5 And when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites--which he swore to your ancestors to give to you, a land flowing with milk and honey--you will perform this service in this month.

6 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day [will be] a feast for Yahweh.

7 Unleavened bread will be eaten the seven days; [food with] yeast will not be seen for you; and yeast will not be seen for you in all your territory.

8 And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, 'This [is] because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out from Egypt.'