You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
- KJV Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
- NKJV You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”
- NASB You shall not eat anything with yeast; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”
- NLT During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”
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Quick answer
In all their dwellings Israel is to eat nothing leavened, only unleavened bread.
Overview
The command is repeated and made comprehensive, leaving no exception in any household. Such reinforcement impresses the lesson of purity upon the whole nation. The complete absence of leaven during the feast dramatizes the wholehearted removal of corruption that befits a redeemed people, anticipating Paul's call to keep the feast 'with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth' (1 Corinthians 5:8).
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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