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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. <a href="/nlt/exodus/12.htm">New Living Translation</a> For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel. <a href="/esv/exodus/12.htm">English Standard Version</a> Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/bsb/exodus/12.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. <a href="/kjv/exodus/12.htm">King James Bible</a> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/nkjv/exodus/12.htm">New King James Version</a> Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/nasb_/exodus/12.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/nasb/exodus/12.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8216Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/nasb77/exodus/12.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/lsb/exodus/12.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/amp/exodus/12.htm">Amplified Bible</a> [In the celebration of the Passover in future years,] seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your houses [because it represents the spread of sin]; for whoever eats leavened bread on the first day through the seventh day, that person shall be cut off and excluded from [the atonement made for] Israel. <a href="/csb/exodus/12.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. <a href="/hcsb/exodus/12.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. <a href="/asv/exodus/12.htm">American Standard Version</a> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/cev/exodus/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. And on the first of these seven days, you must remove all yeast from your homes. If you eat anything made with yeast during this festival, you will no longer be part of Israel. <a href="/erv/exodus/12.htm">English Revised Version</a> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/gwt/exodus/12.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the very first day you must remove any yeast that you have in your houses. Whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh day must be excluded from Israel. <a href="/gnt/exodus/12.htm">Good News Translation</a> The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast--eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people. <a href="/isv/exodus/12.htm">International Standard Version</a> You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day be sure to remove all the leaven from your houses, because any person who eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh will be cut off from Israel. <a href="/net/exodus/12.htm">NET Bible</a> For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel. <a href="/nheb/exodus/12.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/wbt/exodus/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eateth leavened bread, from the first day till the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.<div class="vheading2">Majority Text Translations</div><a href="/msb/exodus/12.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. <a href="/web/exodus/12.htm">World English Bible</a> “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/exodus/12.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Seven days you eat unleavened things; only—in the first day you cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for anyone eating anything fermented from the first day until the seventh day, indeed, that person has been cut off from Israel. <a href="/ylt/exodus/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only -- in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day, even that person hath been cut off from Israel. <a href="/slt/exodus/12.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/exodus/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses: whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel. <a href="/cpdv/exodus/12.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For seven days, you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses. Whoever will consume anything leavened, from the first day, even until the seventh day, that soul shall perish from Israel. <a href="/nabre/exodus/12.htm">New American Bible</a> For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. From the very first day you will have your houses clear of all leaven. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh will be cut off from Israel. <a href="/nrsvce/exodus/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/exodus/12.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; and from the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eats leavened bread from your houses from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall perish from Israel. <a href="/hpbt/exodus/12.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day you shall remove the leaven from your houses, because everyone that will eat leavened bread from your houses, that soul will be lost from Israel, from the first day and unto the seventh day.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/exodus/12.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. <a href="/sep/exodus/12.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day ye shall utterly remove leaven from your houses: whoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day. <a href="/parallel/exodus/12-15.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kVae3PiKqhs?start=2825" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/exodus/12.htm">The Feast of Unleavened Bread</a> 14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come. 15<a href="/hebrew/7651.htm" title="7651: šiḇ·‘aṯ (Number-msc) -- Or shibrah; from shaba'; a primitive cardinal number; seven; also seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number.">For seven</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yā·mîm (N-mp) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: tō·ḵê·lū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">you must eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/389.htm" title="389: ’aḵ (Adv) -- Surely, howbeit. Akin to 'aken; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence only."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4682.htm" title="4682: maṣ·ṣō·wṯ (N-fp) -- Unleavened bread or cake. ">unleavened bread.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7223.htm" title="7223: hā·ri·šō·wn (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Former, first, chief. Or riishon; from ri'shah; first, in place, time or rank.">On the first</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: bay·yō·wm (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day</a> <a href="/hebrew/7673.htm" title="7673: taš·bî·ṯū (V-Hifil-Imperf-2mp) -- To repose, desist from exertion. A primitive root; to repose, i.e. Desist from exertion; used in many implied relations.">you are to remove</a> <a href="/hebrew/7603.htm" title="7603: śə·’ōr (N-ms) -- Leaven. From sha'ar; barm or yeast-cake.">the leaven</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: mib·bāt·tê·ḵem (Prep-m:: N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">from your houses.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">Whoever</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: ’ō·ḵêl (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">eats</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/7223.htm" title="7223: hā·ri·šōn (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Former, first, chief. Or riishon; from ri'shah; first, in place, time or rank.">from the first</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: mî·yō·wm (Prep-m:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day</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.">through</a> <a href="/hebrew/7637.htm" title="7637: haš·šə·ḇi·‘î (Art:: Number-oms) -- Seventh (an ord. number). Or shbi iy; ordinal from shib'iym. seventh.">the seventh</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3772.htm" title="3772: wə·niḵ·rə·ṯāh (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To cut off, cut down. A primitive root; to cut; by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant.">must be cut off</a> <a href="/hebrew/5315.htm" title="5315: han·ne·p̄eš (Art:: N-fs) -- From naphash; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. Animal of vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hi·w (Art:: Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: mî·yiś·rā·’êl (Prep-m:: N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">from Israel.</a> 16On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/leviticus/23-6.htm">Leviticus 23:6-8</a> On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. / On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work. / For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’” <a href="/numbers/9-13.htm">Numbers 9:13</a> But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin. <a href="/deuteronomy/16-3.htm">Deuteronomy 16:3-4</a> You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. / 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. <a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">1 Corinthians 5:7-8</a> 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. <a href="/matthew/26-17.htm">Matthew 26:17</a> On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” <a href="/mark/14-12.htm">Mark 14:12</a> On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” <a href="/luke/22-1.htm">Luke 22:1</a> Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, <a href="/john/19-31.htm">John 19:31</a> It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed. <a href="/leviticus/2-11.htm">Leviticus 2:11</a> 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. <a href="/leviticus/6-17.htm">Leviticus 6:17</a> It must not be baked with leaven; I have assigned it as their portion of My food offerings. It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. <a href="/leviticus/10-12.htm">Leviticus 10:12</a> And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy. <a href="/deuteronomy/16-8.htm">Deuteronomy 16:8</a> For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work. <a href="/2_chronicles/30-21.htm">2 Chronicles 30:21</a> The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD. <a href="/ezra/6-22.htm">Ezra 6:22</a> For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel. <a href="/ezekiel/45-21.htm">Ezekiel 45:21</a> On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.seven<a href="/exodus/12-8.htm">Exodus 12:8</a> And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.<a href="/exodus/13-6.htm">Exodus 13:6,7</a> Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD… <a href="/exodus/23-15.htm">Exodus 23:15</a> Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)that soul<a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Exodus 12:19,20</a> Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land… <a href="/exodus/31-14.htm">Exodus 31:14</a> Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.<a href="/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14</a> And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/exodus/12-8.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/exodus/9-31.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/exodus/12-11.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/genesis/49-27.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/11-29.htm">Eats</a> <a href="/exodus/12-5.htm">First</a> <a href="/exodus/12-13.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/genesis/48-19.htm">Howbeit</a> <a href="/exodus/12-6.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/luke/13-21.htm">Leavened</a> <a href="/exodus/10-17.htm">Remove</a> <a href="/exodus/7-25.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/genesis/8-4.htm">Seventh</a> <a href="/genesis/49-6.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/exodus/12-8.htm">Unleavened</a> <a href="/exodus/12-8.htm">Yeast</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/12-17.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/exodus/12-16.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Eats</a> <a href="/exodus/12-16.htm">First</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-27.htm">Howbeit</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Leavened</a> <a href="/exodus/13-22.htm">Remove</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Seven</a> <a href="/exodus/12-16.htm">Seventh</a> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/exodus/12-17.htm">Unleavened</a> <a href="/exodus/12-18.htm">Yeast</a><div class="vheading2">Exodus 12</div>1. <a href="/exodus/12-1.htm">The beginning of the year is changed</a> 3. <a href="/exodus/12-3.htm">The Passover is instituted</a> 11. <a href="/exodus/12-11.htm">The import of the rite of the Passover</a> 15. <a href="/exodus/12-15.htm">Unleavened bread</a> 29. <a href="/exodus/12-29.htm">The firstborn are slain</a> 31. <a href="/exodus/12-31.htm">The Israelites are driven out of the land</a> 37. <a href="/exodus/12-37.htm">They come to Succoth</a> 41. <a href="/exodus/12-41.htm">The time of their sojourning</a> 43. <a href="/exodus/12-43.htm">The ordinance of the Passover</a> </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 command to eat unleavened bread for seven days is part of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which immediately follows Passover. This feast commemorates the Israelites' hasty departure from Egypt, where they did not have time to let their bread rise. Unleavened bread, or matzah, symbolizes purity and the absence of sin, as leaven often represents sin or corruption in biblical symbolism (<a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6-8</a>). The seven-day period signifies completeness and perfection in biblical numerology, reflecting a complete cycle of purification and dedication to God.On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Removing leaven from the house is a physical act that symbolizes spiritual cleansing. In the context of the Exodus, it was a practical necessity due to the haste of departure, but it also serves as a metaphor for removing sin from one's life. This practice is still observed in Jewish households today during Passover, where a thorough cleaning is done to ensure no leaven is present. The act of removing leaven can be seen as a precursor to the Christian practice of self-examination and repentance.Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. The severe consequence of being "cut off" underscores the importance of obedience to God's commands. In ancient Israel, being cut off could mean excommunication or even death, depending on the context. This phrase highlights the seriousness with which God views sin and disobedience. It also foreshadows the New Testament teaching on church discipline and the need for purity within the community of believers (<a href="/1_corinthians/5.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1-13</a>). The emphasis on community purity reflects the holiness required by God and the need for His people to be set apart from the surrounding nations.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a> The chosen people of God, who are being instructed on how to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread as part of their deliverance from Egypt. 2. <a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a> The land of bondage from which the Israelites are being delivered. The context of this command is the preparation for the Exodus. 3. <a href="/topical/f/feast_of_unleavened_bread.htm">Feast of Unleavened Bread</a> A significant event in the Jewish calendar, instituted by God as a commemoration of the Israelites' deliverance from Egypt. It involves eating unleavened bread for seven days. 4. <a href="/topical/l/leaven.htm">Leaven</a> Symbolically represents sin and corruption in the Bible. The removal of leaven signifies purification and holiness. 5. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The divine authority giving these instructions to Moses and the Israelites, emphasizing obedience and holiness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_leaven.htm">Symbolism of Leaven</a> Leaven represents sin and corruption. Just as the Israelites were to remove leaven from their homes, Christians are called to remove sin from their lives. <a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_commands.htm">Obedience to God's Commands</a> The command to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread underscores the importance of obedience to God's instructions as an expression of faith and devotion. <a href="/topical/h/holiness_and_purity.htm">Holiness and Purity</a> The removal of leaven is a call to holiness. Believers are encouraged to pursue purity in their spiritual lives, reflecting God's holiness. <a href="/topical/c/community_accountability.htm">Community Accountability</a> The consequence of being "cut off" from Israel for disobedience highlights the importance of community standards and accountability in the faith community. <a href="/topical/r/remembrance_and_celebration.htm">Remembrance and Celebration</a> The Feast of Unleavened Bread serves as a reminder of God's deliverance and faithfulness, encouraging believers to remember and celebrate God's work in their lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_exodus_12.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Exodus 12</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_feast_of_unleavened_bread.htm">What is the Feast of Unleavened Bread?</a> <a href="/q/what_is_unleavened_bread.htm">What is unleavened bread?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_yeast_change_dough_like_god's_realm.htm">How does yeast transform dough like God's kingdom?</a> <a href="/q/what's_god's_redemption_plan.htm">Can unleavened bread be used for Communion?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/exodus/12.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(15) Seven days.--The division of time into periods of seven days each was unknown to the more ancient Egyptians, but is thought to have existed in Babylonia as early as B.C. 2000. That it was recognised in the family of Abraham appears from <a href="/genesis/29-27.htm" title="Fulfill her week, and we will give you this also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years.">Genesis 29:27</a>. According to some, God established the division by an express command to our first parents in Paradise that they should keep the seventh day holy (see <a href="/genesis/2-3.htm" title="And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.">Genesis 2:3</a>); but this is greatly questioned by others, who regard <a href="/genesis/2-3.htm" title="And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.">Genesis 2:3</a> as anticipatory, and think the Sabbath was not instituted until the giving of the manna (<a href="/exodus/16-23.htm" title="And he said to them, This is that which the LORD has said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD: bake that which you will bake to day, and seethe that you will seethe; and that which remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.">Exodus 16:23</a>). However this may have been, it is generally allowed that the Israelites had not observed the seventh day in Egypt. where, indeed, they were held to labour continually. and that the Sabbath as an actual observance dates from the Exodus. The injunction here given, if it belongs to the time of the tenth plague, would be the first preliminary note of warning with respect to the Sabbath, raising an expectation of it, and preparing the way for it, leading up to the subsequent revelations in the wilderness of Sin and at Sinai.Ye shall put away leaven out of your houses.--There was to be no compromise, nothing resembling half measures. Leaven, taken as typical of corruption, was to be wholly put away, not allowed by any householder to lurk anywhere within his house--a solemn warning that we are to make no compromise with sin.That soul shall be cut off from Israel.--See the Note on <a href="/genesis/17-14.htm" title="And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.">Genesis 17:14</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/exodus/12.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 15. - Seven days. There is no indication that the week of seven days was admitted by the ancient Egyptians, or even known to them. Apparently, the nation which first adopted it was that of the Babylonians. Abraham may have brought it with him from "Ur of the Chaldees;" and from him it may have passed to Jacob, and so to Moses. That the week was known in the family of Abraham before the giving of the law, appears from <a href="/genesis/29-27.htm">Genesis 29:27, 28</a>. Unleavened bread is typical of purity of heart, leaven being an emblem of corruption (<a href="/matthew/16-6.htm">Matthew 16:6-12</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/5-7.htm">1 Corinthians 5:7</a>). "Leaven," says Plutarch, "comes from corruption, and corrupts the dough with which it is mixed; and every fermentation seems to be a putrefaction." The primary command to celebrate the first passover with unleavened instead of leavened bread (ver. 8), must be attributed wholly to this symbolism. But the permanent institution of a "feast of unleavened bread," to last a week, had a double bearing. Partly, it was designed to deepen and intensify the conviction that corruption and impurity disqualify for religions service; but it was also partly intended as a commemoration of the fact, that in their hasty flight from Egypt the bread which they took with them was unleavened (ver. 340, and that they were forced to subsist on this for several days. (Compare the double meaning of the "bitter herbs, noticed in the comment on verse 8, ad fin.) The requirement to "put away leaven out of their houses" is probably intended to teach, that for family worship to he acceptable, the entire household must be pure, and that to effect this result the head of the household must, so far as he can, eject the leaven of sin from his establishment. Whosoever eateth... shall be out off from Israel. Expelled, i.e, from the congregation, or excommunicated. If a man wilfully transgresses any plain precept of God, even though it be a positive one, he should he severed from the Church, until he confess his fault, and repent, and do penance for it. Such was the ', godly discipline" of the primitive Church; and it were well if the Churches of these modern times had more of it. <a href="/commentaries/exodus/12-15.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>For seven שִׁבְעַ֤ת (šiḇ·‘aṯ) Number - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7651.htm">Strong's 7651: </a> Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number days יָמִים֙ (yā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day you must eat תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ (tō·ḵê·lū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat unleavened bread. מַצּ֣וֹת (maṣ·ṣō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4682.htm">Strong's 4682: </a> Sweetness, sweet, an unfermented cake, loaf, the festival of Passover On the first הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן (hā·ri·šō·wn) Article | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7223.htm">Strong's 7223: </a> First, in place, time, rank day בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day you are to remove תַּשְׁבִּ֥יתוּ (taš·bî·ṯū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7673.htm">Strong's 7673: </a> To repose, desist from exertion the yeast שְּׂאֹ֖ר (śə·’ōr) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7603.htm">Strong's 7603: </a> Barm, yeast-cake from your houses. מִבָּתֵּיכֶ֑ם (mib·bāt·tê·ḵem) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house Whoever כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every eats אֹכֵ֣ל (’ō·ḵêl) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat anything leavened חָמֵ֗ץ (ḥā·mêṣ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2557.htm">Strong's 2557: </a> That which is leavened from the first הָרִאשֹׁ֖ן (hā·ri·šōn) Article | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7223.htm">Strong's 7223: </a> First, in place, time, rank day מִיּ֥וֹם (mî·yō·wm) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day through עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the seventh הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃ (haš·šə·ḇi·‘î) Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7637.htm">Strong's 7637: </a> Seventh (an ordinal number) must be cut off וְנִכְרְתָ֞ה (wə·niḵ·rə·ṯāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3772.htm">Strong's 3772: </a> To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant from Israel. מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (mî·yiś·rā·’êl) Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/exodus/12-15.htm">OT Law: Exodus 12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread (Exo. 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