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Seven days shall you 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.
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Leaven as a Symbol of Sin
Commentators explain that the command to remove leaven was more than a dietary rule. Leaven symbolizes corruption, hypocrisy, and malice. The instruction to diligently search for and remove every trace of leaven from their homes served as a powerful object lesson for Israel to make no compromise with sin and to pursue holiness thoroughly.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Cut off - The penalty inflicted on those who transgressed the command may be accounted for on the ground that it was an act of rebellion; bu…
19th Century
Anglican
Seven days. —The division of time into periods of seven days each was unknown to the more ancient Egyptians, but is thought to hav…
Baptist
And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shal…
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16th Century
Protestant
Whoever eats leavened bread. This law specifically refers to the keeping of the Passover. God had previously forbidden the use of leaven, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread From the evening of the fourteenth day to the evening of the twenty first;…
The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does thi…
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