Exo 12:17 | NETfull | STEP | So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your regiments out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

Exodus 12:17

17 So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very ^{▼▼ Heb “on the bone of this day.” The expression means “the substance of the day,” the day itself, the very day (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 95).} day I brought your regiments ^{▼▼ The word is “armies” or “divisions” (see Exod 6:26 and the note there; cf. also 7:4). The narrative will continue to portray Israel as a mighty army, marching forth in its divisions.} out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance. ^{▼▼ See Exod 12:14.}