In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. The precise dates anchor the feast to the calendar with legal exactness: evening of the fourteenth to evening of the twenty-first. Seven days, bounded by specific times, beginning with the Passover meal. The explicitness of the calendar instruction is characteristic of covenant law: it cannot be observed on a day of convenience or whenever spiritually inclined; it is tied to specific times. Galatians 4:4 says when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son — the divine use of specific, appointed times runs from the Passover calendar through the incarnation. God works in time, with precision, on schedule. The feast of Unleavened Bread is Israel's annual reminder that God keeps His appointments.

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