“You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days ¹  you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this ²  at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

“‘These are the appointed times of the Lord that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the Lord – burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, ¹  each day according to its regulation, ² 

In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, ¹  you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep ²  it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.” ³ 

It happened that some men ¹  who were ceremonially defiled ²  by the dead body of a man ³  could not keep ⁴  the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the Lord, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the Lord God of Israel.

At that time they will say, ¹  “Look, here ²  is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here ³  is the Lord! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”

Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ¹  and the sounds of laughter and merriment. I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ²  I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

He ¹  said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near. I will observe the Passover with my disciples at your house.”’”

For seven days ¹  you must eat ²  bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be ³  a festival to the Lord.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

“‘These are the Lord’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

Let the sea and everything in it shout! Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!

Rise up, O Lord, in strength! ¹  We will sing and praise ²  your power!

Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly! Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright! ¹ 

Ascribe to the Lord the splendor he deserves! ¹  Bring an offering and enter his courts!

Let the fields and everything in them celebrate! Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy

The Lord reigns! Let the earth be happy! Let the many coastlands rejoice!

They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. ¹  The Lord’s right hand conquers, ²