What Does Exodus 13:6 Mean in the King James?

Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

Exodus 13:6 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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 shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:14 · KJVThe feast is joined to remembrance that continues through generations.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

Leviticus 23:6 · KJVThe same seven-day practice is explicitly gathered under the name of a feast to the LORD.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5:8 · KJVThe feast pattern carries into a way of keeping the feast marked by sincerity and truth.

THE THREAD

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 12:14 · KJV

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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