Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

The Plague of Frogs

Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.

For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord.

Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.

“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

“Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.

The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.

“Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.

For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.

“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

They made its seven lamps, as well as its wick trimmers and trays, of pure gold.