Holy Scripture

Exodus 13:4

A church father on this verse
“But if man groans and cries out to God, he sends him the spiritual Moses, who redeems him from the slavery of the Egyptians. But man first cries out and groans and then he receives the beginning of deliverance. And he is delivered in the month of new flowers, in the springtime when the ground of the soul is able to sh…”
Pseudo-Macarius, 6th c. — HOMILY 47.7

Source: Septuagint

Original

4For on this day ye go forth in the month of new corn.

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In context

2Sanctify to me every firstborn, first produced, opening every womb among the children of Israel both of man and beast: it is mine.

3And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.

— Exodus 13:4 —

5And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Girgashites, and Perizzites, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.

6Six days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a feast to the Lord.

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