Deuteronomy 16:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day, because it is the assembly of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work.
שֵׁ֥שֶׁת יָמִ֖ים תֹּאכַ֣ל מַצּ֑וֹת וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗י עֲצֶ֙רֶת֙ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לֹ֥א תַעֲשֶׂ֖ה מְלָאכָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 13:6Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord.
- Ex 13:8And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.
- Lev 23:36The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.
- Num 28:17And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they eat unleavened bread.
- Num 28:19And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:
- Ex 12:15Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
- Ex 12:16The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating.
- Lev 23:6And the fifteenth day of the same month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.