Deuteronomy 16:8

[for] six days you eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day [is] a restraint to your God YHWH; you do no work.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

In Context

7and you have cooked and eaten in the place on which your God YHWH fixes, and have turned in the morning and gone to your tents;

9You number seven weeks for yourself; you begin to number seven weeks from the beginning of the sickle among the standing grain,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:15Seven days you eat unleavened things; only—in the first day you cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for anyone eating anything fermented from the first day until the seventh day, indeed, that person has been cut off from Israel.

Leviticus 23:6and on the fifteenth day of this month [is] the Celebration of Unleavened Things to YHWH; [for] seven days you eat unleavened things;

Numbers 28:17and in the fifteenth day of this month [is] a festival; [for] seven days unleavened bread is eaten.

Nehemiah 8:18And he reads in the Scroll of the Law of God day by day, from the first day until the last day, and they make a celebration seven days, and on the eighth day a restraint, according to the ordinance.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:2-18

Yearly Release. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of… Read the whole commentary →

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