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4-5 Celebrate this day of your exodus, at the end of March[a] each year, when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land he promised your fathers, a land ‘flowing with milk and honey.’ 6-7 For seven days you shall eat only bread without yeast, and there must be no yeast in your homes or anywhere within the borders of your land! Then, on the seventh day, a great feast to the Lord shall be held.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:4 the end of March, literally, “at the appointed time each year.”

Today, in the month of Aviv,(A) you are leaving. When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,(B) Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites(C)—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey(D)—you are to observe this ceremony(E) in this month: For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival(F) to the Lord.

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