Deuteronomy 16:8 “For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you…”

Deuteronomy 16:8

For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

World English Bible

Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.

American Standard Version

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.

Geneva Bible 1599

Six daies shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, and ye seuenth day shall be a solemne assemblie to ye Lord thy God thou shalt do no worke therein.

Darby Translation

Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work.

Young's Literal Translation

six days thou dost eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day [is] a restraint to Jehovah thy God; thou dost do no work.

Bible in Basic English

For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

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Cross references

“Six days”

Leviticus 23:6–8 Numbers 28:17–19 Exodus 12:15 Exodus 12:16 Exodus 13:7 Exodus 13:8

Leviticus 23:6–8 · BSB

On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Numbers 28:17–19 · BSB

On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.

Exodus 12:15 · BSB

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16 · BSB

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

Exodus 13:7 · BSB

Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.

Exodus 13:8 · BSB

And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

“solemn assembly”

Leviticus 23:36 2 Chronicles 7:9 Joel 1:14 Nehemiah 8:18

Leviticus 23:36 · BSB

For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

2 Chronicles 7:9 · BSB

On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar had lasted seven days, and the feast seven days more.

Joel 1:14 · BSB

Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

Nehemiah 8:18 · BSB

Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

Also

Exodus 13:6–8

Exodus 13:6–8 · BSB

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

9You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

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