16 And (A)on the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except for what must be eaten by every person—that alone may be [a]prepared by you. 17 You shall also keep (B)the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this (C)very day I brought your [b]multitudes out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as (D)a [c]permanent ordinance. 18 (E)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:16 Lit done
  2. Exodus 12:17 Lit armies
  3. Exodus 12:17 Or eternal

16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work(A) at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread,(B) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.(C) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.(D) 18 In the first month(E) you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

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