Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh. Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
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Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. Today you go out in the month Abib. It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh. Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders. You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt. You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
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Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
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Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.
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- Exodus 12:19 (v7) There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the…
- Exodus 12:15-20 (v6) “ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened…
- Exodus 34:18 (v6) “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the…
- Leviticus 23:8 (v6) But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.’…
- Matthew 16:6 (v7) Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v6 Both the seventh and the first day were holy,…
Both the seventh and the first day were holy, as Exod. 12:16.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Exo 13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread,…
Exo 13:6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day [shall be] a feast to the LORD.
Ver. 6. Seven days.] Figuring our whole life.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,.... The Jews…
Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,.... The Jews (y) gather from this place, and from Deu 16:8, that the obligation to eat unleavened bread lasted no longer than the first night of the seven days, but on the rest it was enough if they abstained from leavened bread, and it was lawful for them to eat of other food as they pleased; see Gill on Exo 12:15, but the words are very express in both places, and so in the following verse, for eating unleavened bread, as well as abstaining from leavened; and, indeed, otherwise it would not be so clear and plain a commemoration of their case and circumstances, in which they were when they came out of Egypt; this bread of affliction, as it is called, Deu 16:3 being what would put them in mind thereof:
and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord; an holy convocation, in which no work was to be done, except what was necessary for preparing food to eat, see Exo 12:16.
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(y) In Siphre apud Manasseh Ben lsrael. Conciliat. in loc.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v7 There shall no leavened bread be seen in all…
There shall no leavened bread be seen in all thy quarters - Accordingly the Jews usage was, before the feast of the passover, to cast all the leavened bread out of their houses; either they burnt it, or buried it, or broke it small, and threw it into the wind; they searched diligently with lighted candles in all the corners of their houses, lest any leaven should remain. The strictness enjoined in this matter was designed,
1. To make the feast the more solemn, and consequently the more taken notice of by the children, who would ask, why is so much ado made?
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2. To teach us how solicitous we should be to put away from us all sin.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v6 Verse 6. Unleavened bread] See Clarke on Ex 12:15;…
Verse 6. Unleavened bread] See Clarke on Ex 12:15; and "Ex 12:16".
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v6 6. Unleavened cakes to be eaten for 7 days…
6. Unleavened cakes to be eaten for 7 days (Exo_12:15), with a ḥag on the 7th day. In P the ḥag is on the first day, and there is a ‘holy convocation,’ with restrictions from work, on the 1st and 7th days: Exo_12:14; Exo_12:16, Lev_23:6-8. On the use of unleavened cakes in general, see on Exo_12:8; on their use in this observance, see pp. 241, 242.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v6 (6) A feast to the Lord.—Comp. Exo_12:16, where a…
(6) A feast to the Lord.—Comp. Exo_12:16, where a “holy convocation” is ordered for the seventh day. The Jews regard this day—the twenty-first of Ahib—as the anniversary of the passage of the Red Sea.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Seven days. Compare Exo_12:15. In the seventh day shall…
Seven days. Compare Exo_12:15. In the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. The feast lasted during the whole of the seven days, but the first day and the last were to be kept especially holy. (Exo_12:16; Lev_23:6-8)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v6 General Information:
General Information:
Moses continues to speak to the people of Israel.
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For seven days
"For 7 days" (See: Numbers)
Bread without yeast must be eaten
This can be stated in active form. AT: "You must eat bread without yeast" (See: Active or Passive)
no bread with yeast may be seen among you
This can be stated in active form. AT: "You may not have any bread with yeast among you" (See: Active or Passive)
No yeast may be seen with you
This can be stated in active form. AT: "You may not have any yeast" (See: Active or Passive)
within any of your borders
"inside any of the borders of your land"
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feast
honor
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