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Not a Contradiction
Commentators address why this verse mentions eating unleavened bread for "six days" when other passages specify seven. They clarify this is not a contradiction. The seventh day is simply highlighted for its special purpose as a "solemn assembly," not because unleavened bread was omitted on that day.
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Deuteronomy
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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 16:1–8
18th Century
Theologian
The cardinal point on which all the regulations in this chapter depend is evidently the same as has been so often emphasized in the previous chapte…
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 16:1–8
19th Century
Bishop
Deuteronomy 16:1–8. THE PASSOVER. ()
The month Abib was so called from the “ears of c…
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 16:8
17th Century
Pastor
Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread
In other places it is ordered to be eaten seven days, ([Reference Exodus 12…
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Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 16:1–17
17th Century
Minister
The laws for the three yearly feasts are repeated here: that of the Passover, that of Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concernin…