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Exodus 12:34,39
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
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Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
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Matthew 13:33
Another parable spoke he to them; The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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Strong's Hebrew

4682. matstsah -- unleavened bread or cake
... with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival
of Passover (because no leaven was then used) -- unleaved (bread, cake ...
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Library

The Parable of the Leaven.
... why yeast is put into dough for making bread or cake. ... is this increase, that if a
single yeast-plant were ... mass of dough it would very quickly leaven the whole ...
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Third Withdrawal from Herod's Territory.
... [Leaven, which answered to our modern yeast, was a symbol ... 16 And they reasoned one
with another, ^a among themselves, saying, We took { ^b have} no bread. ...
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Leaven
... is like leaven.' Now of course, leaven is generally ... the heavy lump of dough into
light, nutritious bread. ... be sure that the tiny morsel of yeast will penetrate ...
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