Leviticus 23:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.
Douay-Rheims

בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לַחֹ֖דֶשׁ בֵּ֣ין הָעַרְבָּ֑יִם פֶּ֖סַח לַיהוָֽה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Theophylact of Bulgaria

11th centuryChurch Father

It is important to understand the Jewish festivals, of which there were three. The first was the Passover, observed in commemoration of their exodus from Egypt, and held a position of primary significance among their celebrations. These festivals carried a deeper meaning as well; the Passover represented our movement from doubt to belief.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

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 16:8Six 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.
Josh 5:10And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho:
Num 28:16And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,
Num 28:17And on the fifteenth day the solemn feast: seven days shall they eat unleavened bread.
2 Chr 35:18There was no phase like to this in Israel, from the days of Samuel the prophet: neither did any of all the kings of Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept, with the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda, and Israel that were found, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chr 35:19In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this phase celebrated.
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.