14 ¶ Three times shalt thou keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou (A)shalt keep the feast of [a]unleavened bread: thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the season of the month of Abib: for in it thou camest out of Egypt: and (B)none shall appear before me empty.

16 The [b]feast also of the harvest of the first fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the [c]feast of gathering fruits in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:15 That is, Easter, in remembrance that the Angel passed over and spared the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn of the Egyptians.
  2. Exodus 23:16 Which is Whitsuntide, in token that the Law was given 50 days after they departed from Egypt.
  3. Exodus 23:16 This is the feast of Tabernacles, signifying that they dwelled 40 years under the tents or the Tabernacles in wilderness.

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