Exodus 13 · Verse 6

Exodus 13:6

Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
Exodus 13:6, King James Version

Exodus 13:6 in other translations

BSBFor seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
WEBSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
ASVSeven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah.
YLT‘Seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, and in the seventh day is a feast to Jehovah;
DARBYSeven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread; and in the seventh day is a feast to Jehovah.
BBEFor seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.
WebsterSeven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

What does Exodus 13:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 13:5-7

5-7. when the Lord shall bring thee--The passover is here instituted as a permanent festival of the Israelites. It was, however, only a prospective observance; we read of only one celebration of the passover during the protracted sojourn in the wilderness [Nu 9:5]; but on their settlement in the promised land, the season was hallowed as a sacred anniversary [Jos 5:10], in conformity with the directions here given.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Unleavened bread - See Clarke on Exo 12:15 (note), and Exo 12:16 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 13:1-10

Chapter Outline The first-born sanctified to God, The remembrance of the passover commanded. (1-10) The firstlings of beasts set apart. (11-16) Joseph's bones carried with the Israelites, They come to Etham. (17-20) God guideth the Israelites by a pillar of cloud fire. (21-22) Verses 1-10 In remembrance of the destruction of the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast, and the deliverance of the Israelites out…

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Exodus 13:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שִׁבְעַ֥תshiv.'AtsevenH7651
יָמִ֖יםya.MimdaysH3117
תֹּאכַ֣לto.Khalyou will eatH398
מַצֹּ֑תma.Tzotunleavened bread<s>H4682
וּבַיּוֹם֙u.vai.yOmand [will be] on the dayH3117
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔יha.she.vi.'I<the> seventhH7637
חַ֖גchaga festivalH2282
לַיהוָֽה\׃la.Yah.wehof YahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 13:6

  • Exodus 12:15-20

    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. …

  • Leviticus 23:8

    But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

  • Exodus 34:18

    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 camest out from Egypt.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
12:15-20; 34:18; Le 23:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 13:5

    And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

  • Exodus 13:6

    Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

  • Exodus 13:7

    Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

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Exodus 13:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Siete días comerás por leudar, y el séptimo día será fiesta á Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Pendant sept jours tu mangeras des pains sans levain, et le septième jour il y aura une fête à l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sieben Tage sollst du Ungesäuertes essen, und am siebten Tage ist ein Fest dem Jehova.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Septem diebus vesceris azymis: et in die septimo erit solemnitas Domini.