Today, in the month of Abib,[a](A) you are leaving. When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites,[b] which He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,(B) you must carry out this ritual in this month.(C) For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:4 March–April; called Nisan in the post-exilic period; Neh 2:1; Est 3:7
  2. Exodus 13:5 DSS, Sam, LXX, Syr add Girgashites and Perizzites; Jos 3:10

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