14 "This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the Lord. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute. 12:14 Ex 12:17,43; 13:9–10; 2Kg 23:2115 You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast 12:15 Ex 13:6–7; 23:15; 34:18; Lv 23:6; Dt 16:3,8 from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off 12:15 Gn 17:14; Nm 9:13 from Israel. 16 You are to hold a sacred assembly 12:16 Lv 23:7–8; Nm 28:18,25 on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat — you may do only that.
17 "You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your military divisions out of the land of Egypt. 12:17 Ex 12:41,51; 13:3 You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.