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Exodus 12:17
New English Translation
Exodus 12:17
New English Translation
17 So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very[a] day I brought your regiments[b] out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.[c]
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- Exodus 12:17 tn Heb “on the bone of this day.” The expression means “the substance of the day,” the day itself, the very day (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 95).
- Exodus 12:17 tn The word is “armies” or “divisions” (see Exod 6:26 and the note there; cf. also 7:4). The narrative will continue to portray Israel as a mighty army, marching forth in its divisions.
- Exodus 12:17 tn See Exod 12:14.
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