Exodus 13:6

13:6 For seven days ¹  you must eat ²  bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be ³  a festival to the Lord.

Exodus 23:11

23:11 But in the seventh year ⁴  you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field ⁵  may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Exodus 34:18

34:18 “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days ⁶  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this ⁷  at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

Exodus 23:15

23:15 You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days ⁸  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time ⁹  you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before ¹⁰  me empty-handed.

[13:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Seven days.”

[13:6]  ² tn The imperfect tense functions with the nuance of instruction or injunction. It could also be given an obligatory nuance: “you must eat” or “you are to eat.” Some versions have simply made it an imperative.

[13:6]  ³ tn The phrase “there is to be” has been supplied.

[23:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the seventh year”; an adverbial accusative with a disjunctive vav (ו).

[23:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “living thing/creature/beast of the field.” A general term for animals, usually wild animals, including predators (cf. v. 29; Gen 2:19-20; Lev 26:22; Deut 7:22; 1 Sam 17:46; Job 5:22-23; Ezek 29:5; 34:5).

[34:18]  ⁷ tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.

[34:18]  ⁸ tn The words “do this” have been supplied.

[23:15]  ¹⁰ tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.

[23:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in it.”

[23:15]  ¹² 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”).