Exodus 13:3
+ 13:3. Ex 13:3 (#4.276): T. Not to eat leaven on the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to eat hametz ·leaven· nor a mixture containing hametz ·leaven· all seven days of Pesac ·Passover· Moses [Drawn out] said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery], out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Adonai brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
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4Today you go out in the first month Aviv ·Ripening grain (of a new crop), 1·.
Cross References
Genesis 15:16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the depravity (moral evil) of the Amorite [Descendants of Talkers] is not yet full.”
Exodus 6:1Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall divorce them out of his land.” 1 Haftarah Sh'mot ·Taking leave· ·Names·: 1 Yesha'yahu / Isaiah 27:6-28:13, 29:22-23 (A); Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 (S) 1 B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Luke 5:12-39 1 Parashah 14: Va'era ·And I appeared· 6:2-9:35
Exodus 12:2+ 12:2. Ex 12:2 (#4.262): T. To sanctify the first new month of Nissan ·Their flight· and to count Nissan as the first month of the civil calendar / R. The court is to calculate and determine when a new month begins Compare: Pesac ·Passover· is described as beginning on 10th day of Nissan. The Rabbis view Nissan as the first of the “Religious Calendar” because as the Rabbis determined, and therefore Judaism observes, the seventh month as the first month of the “Civil Calendar”. In Hebrew the seventh month’s name is Ethanim ·Ever flowing streams·, in Babylonian it is called Tishrei ·Beginning· / (See more notes in Lev 23:10 OU297) “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month Nissan ·Miracles (in Aramaic), 1· of the year to you.
Exodus 12:15“‘Seven days you shall eat matzah ·unleavened bread·; + 12:15. Ex 12:15 (Ex 12:15-20, 13:7) (#4.267): T. To remove the hametz ·leaven· from your home during the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. To destroy all hametz ·leaven· on 14th day of the first month Nissan, the first day of Pesac ·Passover· / Consider: Leaven is a symbol of sin, excess, and pride; the connotations thereof are negative, neutral, and positive or negative even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel [God prevails].
Exodus 12:41At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Adonai’s armies went out from the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery].
Exodus 13:14It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Adonai brought us out from Egypt [Abode of slavery], from the house of bondage.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 13:2-11
The Sanctification of the Firstborn. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. 3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. 4 This day came ye out in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be when the… Read the whole commentary →