Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,.... In other places it is ordered to be eaten seven days, Ex 12:15 and here it is not said six only; it was to be eaten on the seventh as on the other, though that is here distinguished from the six, because of special and peculiar service assigned to it, but not because of an exemption from eating unleavened bread on it.
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Deuteronomy 16:8
Deuteronomy 16:8
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