For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord. The seven-day feast of unleavened bread culminates in a festival — a day of celebration and worship — on the seventh day. The structure mirrors the creation week: six days of ordinary observance, a seventh day of special commemoration. The feast calendar inscribes Sabbath logic into the memory of the Exodus. Leviticus 23:8 specifies the seventh day of the feast as a sacred assembly with no regular work. The festival at the feast's end is the worship that the entire Exodus was designed to produce: a people free to gather and celebrate the God who freed them. The three-day festival Moses requested from Pharaoh has become a seven-day feast, the full scope of what God had in mind when the request was made.

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