¹⁷ And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, ^(A)and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.

^15 (A)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, ^(B)that person shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day you shall hold a ^(C)holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. ¹⁷ And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for ^(D)on this very day I brought your ^(E)hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. ^18 (F)In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ^19 (G)For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, ^(H)that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, ^(I)whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. ²⁰ You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”

⁷ Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. ⁸ Let us therefore celebrate the festival, ^(A)not with the old leaven, ^(B)the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

²¹ And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept ^(A)the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with all their might^[a] to the Lord. ²² And Hezekiah spoke ^(B)encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the Lord. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing ^(C)peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

²³ Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast ^(D)for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.

⁸ For ^(A)six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be ^(B)a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

³ You shall eat no leavened bread with it. ^(A)Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt ^(B)in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. ^4 (C)No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, ^(D)nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.

Passover Offerings

^16 (A)“On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord's Passover, ^17 (B)and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast. Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ^18 (C)On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, ¹⁹ but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; ^(D)see that they are without blemish; ²⁰ also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram; ²¹ a tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs; ²² also ^(E)one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. ²³ You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering. ²⁴ In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. ²⁵ And ^(F)on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.

^5 (A)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight,^[a] is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ^7 (B)On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. ⁸ But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”

^18 (A)“You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in ^(B)the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.