Leviticus 23:6

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“On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.”

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BSBPD

“On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and on the fifteenth day of this month <FI>is<Fi> the feast of unleavened things to Jehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 23:6 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
  2. Exodus 13:6For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
  3. Exodus 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
  4. Exodus 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
  5. Numbers 28:17On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
  6. Deuteronomy 16:8For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
  7. Acts 12:3And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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