Exodus 12:14
What does Exodus 12:14 mean?
A plain-English look at Exodus 12:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; --a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall celebrate it [as] a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations [as] an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it.
Context
v.13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
v.14This passage
v.15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Zechariah 6:14
And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.
- Matthew 26:13
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
- 1 Samuel 30:25
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
- Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
- Exodus 12:43
And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof;
- Leviticus 23:4
These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season.
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