Exodus 13:3,4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Bible Comments

Remember this day.

A day to be remembered

1. God’s commands and His servants’ obedience are sweetly united together.

2. Deliverance of the Church from Egyptian bondage is justly chargeable on their memory.

3. Jehovah the Author of deliverance is to be minded with His work, and power of doing it.

4. Remembrance of Jehovah carrieth with it mindfulness of duty and service to Him (Exodus 13:3).

5. Days and months of mercy are ordered by God to be remembered (Exodus 13:4). (G. Hughes, B. D.)

Days to be remembered

I. There are days in the history of individuals which ought to be celebrated.

II. There are days in the history of churches which ought to be celebrated.

III. There are days in the history of nations which ought to be celebrated. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)

Exodus 13:3-4

3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage;a for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.