The Listener’s Bible Commentary
Aug 26, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
Leviticus 23-24 Leviticus 23-24 continues the theme of ritual holiness. We have to be careful not to think of this as “mere rituals that don’t really matter.” Our modern instinctive dislike of…
"For six days, work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation," a holy assembly.
And then what follows in the rest of chapter twenty-three is the annual calendar, and it begins at the very beginning of the year with Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
So verse four says, "There are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, that's the Lord's Passover.
Then on the fifteenth day," the very next day, "of the same month, there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord.
And then on the last day, the seventh day, that too is a Sabbath, a holy convocation.
You shall do no laborious work on it." Now, the Passover as well as unleavened bread was first established in Exodus chapter twelve.
And they killed a lamb, painted the doorposts with the blood of the lamb, ate the lamb, and then the next day it led to Israel's deliverance from E- Egyptian bondage.
Well now, every year at the beginning of the year, they are going to sacrifice, kill a lamb for this very purpose to remember the Passover, how God protected and delivered the firstborn through the Passover lamb, and then how they fled Egypt in haste and didn't have time for their bread to rise, so now they're gonna celebrate unleavened bread.
So this whole combination of Passover and u- unleavened bread will be the celebration of God's rescue and deliverance of both the firstborn within Israel and all of Israel from Egyptian bondage.
"For six days, work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation," a holy assembly.
And then what follows in the rest of chapter twenty-three is the annual calendar, and it begins at the very beginning of the year with Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
So verse four says, "There are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, that's the Lord's Passover.
Then on the fifteenth day," the very next day, "of the same month, there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord.
And then on the last day, the seventh day, that too is a Sabbath, a holy convocation.
You shall do no laborious work on it." Now, the Passover as well as unleavened bread was first established in Exodus chapter twelve.
And they killed a lamb, painted the doorposts with the blood of the lamb, ate the lamb, and then the next day it led to Israel's deliverance from E- Egyptian bondage.
Well now, every year at the beginning of the year, they are going to sacrifice, kill a lamb for this very purpose to remember the Passover, how God protected and delivered the firstborn through the Passover lamb, and then how they fled Egypt in haste and didn't have time for their bread to rise, so now they're gonna celebrate unleavened bread.
So this whole combination of Passover and u- unleavened bread will be the celebration of God's rescue and deliverance of both the firstborn within Israel and all of Israel from Egyptian bondage.
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