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How many days is unleavened bread to be eaten during the Passover?
One instruction names six eating days and a seventh day assembly, while several others expressly require unleavened bread for all seven days.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Specifying six eating days before describing the seventh-day assembly does not prohibit unleavened bread on that final day.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Deuteronomy specifies six days before a seventh day assembly
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
Deuteronomy 16:8
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Deuteronomy 16
Unleavened bread is required for seven days
Seven 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.
Exodus 12:15
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Exodus 12