Exodus 13:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

This day you go forth in the month of new corn.
Douay-Rheims

הַיּ֖וֹם אַתֶּ֣ם יֹצְאִ֑ים בְּחֹ֖דֶשׁ הָאָבִֽיב׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Macarius the Egyptian

4th centuryChurch Father

If the spirit longs and calls out to the Lord, He will send a spiritual Moses to free her from her captivity in Egypt. First, however, she must mourn and lament, and then the dawn of her liberation will appear. She experiences this freedom in the season of new blossoms, during springtime, when the soul's heart can yield the lovely branches of truth; after the harsh winter of profound ignorance and deep blindness—the result of sinful actions and disgraceful conduct—has come to an end.

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Passages read together with this verse.

Ex 34:18Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest out from Egypt.
Ex 23:15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.
Ex 12:2This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.
Deut 16:1Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.
Deut 16:3Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.