Deuteronomy 16:3

Passover was to be eaten with unleavened 'bread of affliction' for seven days, to remember the haste of leaving Egypt. The feast kept the Exodus story vivid and personal.

Cross-references · 22

• Exod 12:39Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
• Exod 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
• Exod 12:19–20For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
• Num 9:11Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
• Exod 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• Luke 22:19And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
• Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• 1 Th 1:6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
• 2 Cor 7:10–11Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
• Exod 12:26–27When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
• Num 28:17On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
• Ps 111:4He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
• Exod 13:3–9So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
• Ps 127:2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Exod 12:14–15And 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.
• 1 Cor 11:24–26and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
• Exod 12:32–33Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”
• 1 Cor 5:8Therefore 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.
• 1 Kgs 22:27and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
• Lev 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
• Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
• Exod 12:11This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

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