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15 (A) Celebrate the Festival of Thin Bread by eating bread made without yeast, just as I have commanded.[a] Do this at the proper time during the month of Abib,[b] because it is the month when you left Egypt. And make certain that everyone brings the proper offerings.

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  1. 23.15 as I have commanded: See 12.14-20.
  2. 23.15 Abib: See the note at 12.2.

18 (A) Don't fail to observe the Festival of Thin Bread in the month of Abib.[a] Obey me and eat bread without yeast for seven days during Abib, because that is the month you left Egypt.

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  1. 34.18 Abib: See the note at 12.2.

(A) The Festival of Thin Bread begins on the fifteenth day of that same month; it lasts seven days, and during this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast. On the first day of this festival you must rest from your work and come together for worship. Each day of this festival you must offer sacrifices. Then on the final day you must once again rest from your work and come together for worship.

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17 (A) The following day will begin the Festival of Thin Bread, which will last for a week. During this time you must honor me by eating bread made without yeast.

18 On the first day of this festival, you must rest from your work and come together for worship. 19 Bring to the altar two bulls, one full-grown ram, and seven rams a year old that have nothing wrong with them. And then offer these as sacrifices to please me.[a] 20 Three kilograms of your finest flour mixed with olive oil must be offered with each bull as a grain sacrifice. Two kilograms of flour mixed with oil must be offered with the ram, 21 and one kilogram of flour mixed with oil must be offered with each of the young rams. 22 Also offer a goat[b] as a sacrifice for the sins of the people. 23-24 All of these are to be offered each day of the festival in additional to the regular sacrifices,[c] and the smoke from them will please me. 25 Then on the last day of the festival, you must once again rest from work and come together for worship.

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Footnotes

  1. 28.19 sacrifices to please me: See the note at 6.11.
  2. 28.22 goat: See the note at 7.12-83.
  3. 28.23,24 regular sacrifices: See 28.1-8.

3-4 Eat all of the meat of the Passover sacrifice that same night. But don't serve bread made with yeast at the Passover meal. Serve the same kind of thin bread that you ate when you were slaves suffering in Egypt[a] and when you had to leave Egypt quickly. As long as you live, this thin bread will remind you of the day you left Egypt.

For seven days following Passover,[b] don't make any bread with yeast. In fact, there should be no yeast anywhere in Israel.

Don't offer the Passover sacrifice in just any town where you happen to live. It must be offered at the place where the Lord chooses to be worshiped. Kill the sacrifice at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.[c] Then cook it and eat it there at the place of worship, returning to your tents the next morning.

Eat thin bread for the next six days. Then on the seventh day, don't do any work. Instead, come together and worship the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 16.3,4 the same kind … in Egypt: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 16.3,4 seven days following Passover: This period was called the Festival of Thin Bread (see also verse 16).
  3. 16.6 sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt: Or “sunset on the same date as when you left Egypt.”

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