What is the context?
The Passover is dated to the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. The Feast of Unleavened Bread begins the next day and continues seven days, with sacred assemblies on the first and seventh days and the specified offerings throughout.
The two occasions stand next to each other in the calendar, but the text gives their dates and actions distinctly. Worship includes remembering the Lord’s deliverance through a shared, ordered practice.
How is this passage commonly understood?
The USCCB notes relate the combined celebration to the exodus from Egypt. Wesley distinguishes the restrictions on ordinary work at these festivals from the chapter’s stronger wording about complete Sabbath rest. The calendar sets aside common time for the community’s worship.
Where does this fit in God's plan?
1 Corinthians 5:6–8 expressly calls Christ the sacrificed Passover lamb and uses removal of leaven to call the church away from malice and wickedness toward sincerity and truth. Paul makes both the Christ connection and its practical consequence; he does not merely compare dates.
What is our position?
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Where can I study this further?
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