Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. The Feast of Unleavened Bread returns to its institution in Exodus 12–13. The month of Aviv grounds the feast in the historical fact of the Exodus. The command no one is to appear before me empty-handed establishes the principle of bringing something to the covenant gathering — an offering that acknowledges God as the source of all provision. Deuteronomy 16:16–17 repeats this: each one should bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you. The feast is not merely commemorative but participatory: what God has given is returned to Him in worship.

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