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And do not leave the fat from the festival offerings until the next morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/exodus/23.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/exodus/23.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/exodus/23.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/exodus/23.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/exodus/23.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/exodus/23.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/exodus/23.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/exodus/23.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/exodus/23.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; and the fat of My feast is not to be left overnight until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/exodus/23.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of my festival offering must not remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/exodus/23.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of My festival offering must not remain until morning.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/23.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/exodus/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. And make sure that the fat of the animal is burned that same day. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/23.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/exodus/23.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Never offer the blood of a sacrifice to me at the same time you offer anything containing yeast. The fat sacrificed at my festivals should never be left over in the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/exodus/23.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Do not offer bread made with yeast when you sacrifice an animal to me. The fat of animals sacrificed to me during these festivals is not to be left until the following morning. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/exodus/23.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and you are not to let the fat portion of my sacrifice remain overnight until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/exodus/23.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/exodus/23.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/exodus/23.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/23.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/exodus/23.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />You do not sacrifice the blood of My sacrifice on a fermented thing, and the fat of My festival does not remain until morning;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/exodus/23.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Thou shalt not sacrifice upon leaven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the fat of my festival shall not remain over till morning.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity remain until the morning. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/exodus/23.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />You shall not immolate the blood of my victim over leaven, nor shall the fat of my solemnity remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened; nor shall the fat of my feast be kept overnight till the next day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my festival remain until the morning.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/exodus/23.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You shall not offer the blood of a sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of the festival sacrifices remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/exodus/23.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />You shall not offer blood of sacrifice with leaven and the fat of feasts will not remain until the morning.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/exodus/23.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of My feast remain all night until the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/exodus/23.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/exodus/23-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVae3PiKqhs?start=5880" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/exodus/23.htm">Three Yearly Feasts</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD. <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">You must not</a> <a href="/hebrew/2076.htm" title="2076: ṯiz·baḥ (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms) -- To slaughter for sacrifice. A primitive root; to slaughter an animal.">offer</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: dam- (N-msc) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">the blood</a> <a href="/hebrew/2077.htm" title="2077: ziḇ·ḥî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A sacrifice. From zabach; properly, a slaughter, i.e. The flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice.">of My sacrifices</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/2557.htm" title="2557: ḥā·mêṣ (N-ms) -- That which is leavened. From chamets; ferment, extortion.">anything leavened,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">nor may</a> <a href="/hebrew/2459.htm" title="2459: ḥê·leḇ- (N-msc) -- Or cheleb; from an unused root meaning to be fat; fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part.">the fat</a> <a href="/hebrew/2282.htm" title="2282: ḥag·gî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast. Or chag; from chagag; a festival, or a victim therefor.">of My feast</a> <a href="/hebrew/3885.htm" title="3885: yā·lîn (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- Or liyn; a primitive root; to stop; by implication, to stay permanently; hence to be obstinate.">remain</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/1242.htm" title="1242: bō·qer (N-ms) -- Morn- ing. From baqar; properly, dawn; generally, morning.">morning.</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/2-11.htm">Leviticus 2:11</a></span><br />No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/7-12.htm">Leviticus 7:12-15</a></span><br />If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil. / Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread. / From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/22-29.htm">Leviticus 22:29-30</a></span><br />When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf. / It must be eaten that same day. Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-4.htm">Deuteronomy 16:4</a></span><br />No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/16-5.htm">Deuteronomy 16:5-6</a></span><br />You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you. / You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/6-15.htm">Numbers 6:15</a></span><br />together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/28-2.htm">Numbers 28:2</a></span><br />“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings, as a pleasing aroma to Me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/28-18.htm">Numbers 28:18-25</a></span><br />On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work. / Present to the LORD a food offering, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished. / The grain offering shall consist of fine flour mixed with oil; offer three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">1 Corinthians 5:7-8</a></span><br />Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-16.htm">1 Corinthians 10:16-17</a></span><br />Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? / Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-23.htm">1 Corinthians 11:23-26</a></span><br />For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread, / and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” / In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/9-14.htm">Hebrews 9:14</a></span><br />how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-10.htm">Hebrews 10:10-12</a></span><br />And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. / Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. / But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/13-15.htm">Hebrews 13:15</a></span><br />Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/26-26.htm">Matthew 26:26-28</a></span><br />While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” / Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. / This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.</p><p class="hdg">blood</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/12-8.htm">Exodus 12:8,15</a></b></br> And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; <i>and</i> with bitter <i>herbs</i> they shall eat it… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/34-25.htm">Exodus 34:25</a></b></br> Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/2-11.htm">Leviticus 2:11</a></b></br> No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/22-3.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/exodus/23-15.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/john/2-6.htm">Containing</a> <a href="/genesis/49-20.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/exodus/23-16.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/exodus/13-7.htm">Fermented</a> <a href="/exodus/23-14.htm">Festival</a> <a href="/exodus/21-36.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/exodus/13-7.htm">Leavened</a> <a href="/exodus/19-16.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/exodus/14-21.htm">Night</a> <a href="/exodus/22-29.htm">Offer</a> <a href="/exodus/22-29.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/jonah/4-10.htm">Overnight</a> <a href="/exodus/20-24.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/exodus/13-7.htm">Yeast</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/24-6.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/exodus/23-25.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/exodus/34-25.htm">Containing</a> <a href="/exodus/27-3.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/exodus/32-5.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/exodus/34-25.htm">Fermented</a> <a href="/exodus/32-5.htm">Festival</a> <a href="/exodus/25-15.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/exodus/34-25.htm">Leavened</a> <a href="/exodus/24-4.htm">Morning</a> <a href="/exodus/40-38.htm">Night</a> <a href="/exodus/29-13.htm">Offer</a> <a href="/exodus/24-5.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-13.htm">Overnight</a> <a href="/exodus/24-5.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/exodus/29-2.htm">Yeast</a><div class="vheading2">Exodus 23</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-1.htm">Of slander, false witness, and partiality</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-4.htm">Of charitableness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-6.htm">Of justice in judgment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-8.htm">Of taking bribes</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-9.htm">Of oppressing a stranger</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-10.htm">Of the year of rest</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-12.htm">Of the Sabbath</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-13.htm">Of idolatry</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-14.htm">Of the three feasts</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-18.htm">Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/exodus/23-20.htm">An angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The prohibition against offering blood with leavened bread underscores the importance of purity and separation from sin, as leaven often symbolizes sin or corruption in biblical texts (e.g., <a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6-8</a>). The blood of sacrifices represents life and atonement (<a href="/leviticus/17-11.htm">Leviticus 17:11</a>), and mixing it with leaven would symbolize impurity. This command reflects the holiness required in worship and the need for a pure heart when approaching God. The Passover, a key event in Israel's history, also involved unleavened bread, symbolizing haste and purity (<a href="/exodus/12-8.htm">Exodus 12:8</a>).<p><b>nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning</b><br>The fat of the sacrifices was considered the best part and was to be offered to God, symbolizing giving the best to Him (<a href="/leviticus/3-16.htm">Leviticus 3:16</a>). The command that it should not remain until morning indicates the immediacy and completeness of the offering, ensuring that nothing is left over that could decay or be misused. This reflects the principle of giving God what is due without delay, emphasizing the importance of honoring God with the first and best of what one has. This practice also prefigures the complete and perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who offered Himself wholly and without reservation (<a href="/hebrews/10-10.htm">Hebrews 10:10-14</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The speaker of the command, emphasizing His holiness and the proper way to worship Him.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The recipients of the law, who are being instructed on how to conduct sacrifices and offerings.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/sacrifices.htm">Sacrifices</a></b><br>The offerings made to God, which are central to the worship practices of the Israelites.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/l/leaven.htm">Leaven</a></b><br>A symbol of sin and corruption, which is prohibited in offerings to maintain purity.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/feast.htm">Feast</a></b><br>Refers to the sacred meals associated with sacrifices, which must be consumed in a specific manner.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_in_worship.htm">Holiness in Worship</a></b><br>God’s instructions emphasize the need for purity and holiness in worship. Just as leaven was excluded from sacrifices, believers are called to remove sin from their lives as they approach God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_leaven.htm">Symbolism of Leaven</a></b><br>Leaven represents sin and corruption. In our spiritual lives, we must be vigilant to remove anything that corrupts our relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/i/immediate_obedience.htm">Immediate Obedience</a></b><br>The command not to let the fat remain until morning teaches the importance of immediate and complete obedience to God’s instructions.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/sacrificial_living.htm">Sacrificial Living</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites were to offer sacrifices without leaven, Christians are called to live sacrificially, offering themselves as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_accountability.htm">Community and Accountability</a></b><br>The communal aspect of the feasts and sacrifices reminds us of the importance of community in our spiritual journey, encouraging accountability and mutual edification.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_exodus_23.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Exodus 23</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_the_bible's_jewish_feasts.htm">What are the Jewish feasts and festivals in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_god_want_sacrifices.htm">Does God desire sacrifices? (Hosea 6:6 vs. Exodus 29:18)</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_no_priestly_rites_in_exodus_18_12.htm">Why does Exodus 18:12 lack priestly procedures or tabernacle sacrifices, unlike later instructions, when Jethro offers sacrifices with Israelite elders?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_passover_commemorate.htm">What does Passover commemorate?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/23.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) <span class= "bld">Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.</span>--Some regard this prohibition as extending to all sacrifices; but the majority of commentators limit it to the sacrifice of the Paschal lamb, which was the only sacrifice as yet expressly instituted by Jehovah. According to modern Jewish notions, leavened bread is permissible at the other feasts; at Pentecost it was commanded (<a href="/leviticus/23-17.htm" title="You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the first fruits to the LORD.">Leviticus 23:17</a>).<p><span class= "bld">The fat of my sacrifice.</span>--Rather (as in the Margin), <span class= "ital">the fat of my feast. </span>The fat of the Paschal lambs was burnt on the altar with incense the same evening. Thus the whole lamb was consumed before the morning. As the Paschal lamb is <span class= "greekheb">??? ??????</span>, "<span class= "ital">my </span>sacrifice," so the Passover is "<span class= "ital">my </span>feast."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/23.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="accented">Law of the Paschal sacrifice</span>. That the Paschal lamb is here intended by "my sacrifice," seems to be certain, since the two injunctions to put away leavened bread, and to allow none of the victim's flesh to remain till the morning (see <a href="/exodus/12-10.htm">Exodus 12:10</a>), are combined in the Paschal sacrifice only. Of all the offerings commanded in the law the Paschal lamb was the most important, since it typified Christ. It may therefore well be termed, in an especial way, "God's sacrifice." <span class="cmt_word">By the fat of my feast</span> some understand the fat of the lamb, others the best part of the feast (Keil) - <span class="accented">i.e.</span>, the lamb itself. In <a href="/exodus/34-25.htm">Exodus 34:25</a>, which is closely parallel to the present place, we read, for "the fat of my feast," "the sacrifice of the feast of the passover." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/exodus/23-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You must not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">offer</span><br /><span class="heb">תִזְבַּ֥ח</span> <span class="translit">(ṯiz·baḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2076.htm">Strong's 2076: </a> </span><span class="str2">To slaughter for sacrifice</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the blood</span><br /><span class="heb">דַּם־</span> <span class="translit">(dam-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> </span><span class="str2">Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of My sacrifices</span><br /><span class="heb">זִבְחִ֑י</span> <span class="translit">(ziḇ·ḥî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2077.htm">Strong's 2077: </a> </span><span class="str2">A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">anything leavened,</span><br /><span class="heb">חָמֵ֖ץ</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·mêṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2557.htm">Strong's 2557: </a> </span><span class="str2">That which is leavened</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nor may</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the fat</span><br /><span class="heb">חֵֽלֶב־</span> <span class="translit">(ḥê·leḇ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2459.htm">Strong's 2459: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fat, richest, choice part</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of My feast</span><br /><span class="heb">חַגִּ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(ḥag·gî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2282.htm">Strong's 2282: </a> </span><span class="str2">A festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast</span><br /><br /><span class="word">remain</span><br /><span class="heb">יָלִ֥ין</span> <span class="translit">(yā·lîn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3885.htm">Strong's 3885: </a> </span><span class="str2">To stop, to stay permanently, to be obstinate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">until</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">morning.</span><br /><span class="heb">בֹּֽקֶר׃</span> <span class="translit">(bō·qer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1242.htm">Strong's 1242: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dawn, morning</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/exodus/23-18.htm">Exodus 23:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/exodus/23-18.htm">OT Law: Exodus 23:18 You shall not offer the blood (Exo. 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