You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
God commanded the land to rest every seventh year to show Israel both His abundance and their dependence on Him alone. This was no mercy to the soil but a test of their obedience in the very matter that touches their purse, whether they would trust His Providence as surely as the sixth day's manna served for two days' meat.
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Commenting on Exodus 23:10-19
Three times yearly all the males of Israel were to appear before the Lord in Jerusalem, presenting themselves as His own and devoted to His service. The law bound all except the deaf, the fool, the child, women, slaves not freed, the lame, the blind, the sick, the aged, and those who could not walk.
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Keep the feast of unleavened bread in the month of Abib as I have commanded, a memorial that when I struck Egypt's firstborn, the angel passed over your dwellings and spared you. Come before Me, but not empty-handed.
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