Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, as when you escaped from Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread—the bread of suffering—so that as long as you live you will remember the day you departed from Egypt.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

The cardinal point on which all the regulations in this chapter depend is evidently the same as has been so often emphasized in the previous chapte…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Deuteronomy 16:1–8. THE PASSOVER.

The month Abib was so called from the “ears of cor…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it. Because by this sign they were reminded of their having escaped in haste, as if from the very fl…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

You shall eat no leavened bread with it
With the passover, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; that is, with the…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

The laws for the three yearly feasts are repeated here: that of the Passover, that of Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concernin…