QUEST. XXI Why seven dayes are limited for the keeping, of the Feast of unleavened bread.
BUt why they were commanded to eat unleavened bread seven dayes, the reason is not; 1. Either be∣cause a finite number is taken for an indefinite, as the number of seven is sometime used in Scripture; and so these seven dayes did bring to their minde those thirtie dayes wherein they did eat unleavened bread. Ioseph. Perer. 2. Neither doe these seven dayes so much signifie; that at all times they should re∣member their deliverance even all the yeere long. Pellican. 3. But this is more likely to have beene the reason thereof, because there were so many dayes from the going out of Egypt, untill the overthrow of the Egyptians in the red sea, untill when, their deliverance was not perfect, nor they wholly out of danger, for then the Lord is said to have saved or delivered Israel from the hand of the Egyptian, chap. 14.30. Iun. And that this destruction of the Egyptians in the red sea followed seven dayes after the going of Israel out of Egypt, shall be shewed in the 26. quest.