Exodus 12:17

12:17 So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very ¹  day I brought your regiments ²  out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance. ³ 

Exodus 23:15

23:15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days ⁴  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time ⁵  you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before ⁶  me empty-handed.

[12:17]  ¹ 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).

[12:17]  ² 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.

[12:17]  ³ tn See Exod 12:14.

[23:15]  ⁴ tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.

[23:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “in it.”

[23:15]  ⁶ tn The verb is a Niphal imperfect; the nuance of permission works well here – no one is permitted to appear before God empty (Heb “and they will not appear before me empty”).