What Does Exodus 13:6 Mean?
Seven days you shall eat unrisen bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.THE KEY
The seven days of unleavened bread reach their culmination in a day named חַג (ḥag), placing the rhythm inside festival language.
THE MEANING
The verse places you within seven days of eating unleavened bread, culminating in a feast to the LORD. The seventh day gathers the repeated practice into a marked celebration.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that a plain, restricted season can only mean loss; the seventh day is named a feast to the LORD.
THE ROOT
חַג
ḥag
GROWS FROM
חגג
ḥ-g-g
Celebrate or keep a feast.
חַג is the festival word formed from חגג, “to celebrate” or “keep a feast.” Its place at the end of the seven-day rhythm names the culmination as celebration before the LORD.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāgag: Celebrate; keep a feast
חָגַג
The verb behind the festival word makes the seventh day an act of celebration, not simply a date on the calendar.
ḥagigah: Festival celebration; festival offering
חֲגִיגָה
This related word carries the same feast language into a festive observance, echoing how the seventh day gathers the week into celebration.
THE PATTERN
An appointed festival gathers repeated practice into a marked remembrance that carries across generations.
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the festival of bread without the sour to the LORD. For seven days you shall eat bread without the sour.Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of badness and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of clarity and truth.THE THREAD
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.The same Hebrew word חַג (ḥag), “feast” or “festival,” appears in both verses. Exodus 12:14 joins that feast to a memorial kept through generations, opening the seventh-day celebration into an ongoing rhythm of remembrance.
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