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Thisהַזֶּהdayהַיּוֹםshall beוְהָיָהfor youלָכֶםa memorial,לְזִכָּרוֹןand you shall celebrateוְחַגֹּתֶםitאֹתוֹas a festivalחַגto YHWH;לַיהוָהthroughout your generations,לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶםas a statuteחֻקַּתforever,עוֹלָםyou shall celebrate it.תְּחָגֻּהוּ
Exodus 12:14
Study it in the app“This day shall be for you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to YHWH; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall celebrate it.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 12:14, word by word
- dayיּוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- shall beהָיָהhaya
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appears- a memorialזִכָּרוֹןzikaron
memorial
Memorial: something done or kept in order to remember.
Where else “zikaron” appears- and you shall celebrateחַגֹּתֶםchagotem
keep a festival
To rejoice before YHWH on a holy day.
Where else “chagotem” appears- as a festivalחַגchag
festival
Festival in honor of God, with pilgrimage.
Where else “chag” appears- to YHWHיהוָהyhva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appears- throughout your generationsדֹרֹתֵיdorote
generation
The people of the same time.
Where else “dorote” appears- as a statuteחֻקַּתchukat
statute
Statute: a fixed rule, laid down to be kept always.
Where else “chukat” appears- foreverעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears
The context
13The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no destroying plague will be among you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 · This verse (above)
15Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed, on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.