Exodus 13:7
New International Version
Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

New Living Translation
Eat bread without yeast during those seven days. In fact, there must be no yeast bread or any yeast at all found within the borders of your land during this time.

English Standard Version
Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.

Berean Standard Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.

King James Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

New King James Version
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.

New American Standard Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing with yeast shall be seen among you, nor shall any dough with yeast be seen among you in all your borders.

NASB 1995
“Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders.

NASB 1977
“Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders.

Legacy Standard Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders.

Amplified Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, nor shall there be leaven within the borders of your territory.

Christian Standard Bible
Unleavened bread is to be eaten for those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, and no yeast may be found among you in all your territory.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Unleavened bread is to be eaten for those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, and no yeast may be found among you in all your territory.

American Standard Version
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.

Contemporary English Version
During those seven days, you must not eat anything made with yeast or even have yeast anywhere near your homes.

English Revised Version
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Only unleavened bread should be eaten during these seven days. No sourdough or yeast should be seen anywhere in your territory.

Good News Translation
For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.

International Standard Version
Unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days, and nothing leavened is to be seen among you, nor is leaven to be seen among you throughout your territory.

Majority Standard Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.

NET Bible
Bread made without yeast must be eaten for seven days; no bread made with yeast shall be seen among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.

New Heart English Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders.

Webster's Bible Translation
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days: and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

World English Bible
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
unleavened things are eaten the seven days, and anything fermented is not seen with you; indeed, leaven is not seen with you in all your border.

Young's Literal Translation
unleavened things are eaten the seven days, and any thing fermented is not seen with thee; yea, leaven is not seen with thee in all thy border.

Smith's Literal Translation
Unleavened shall be eaten seven days: and leavened shall not be seen to thee in all thy bounds.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You shall consume unleavened bread for seven days. There shall not be seen anything leavened with you, nor in all your parts.

New American Bible
Unleavened bread may be eaten during the seven days, but nothing leavened and no leaven may be found in your possession in all your territory.

New Revised Standard Version
Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen in your possession, and no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Unleavened bread shall you eat for seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you throughout all your territory.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Unleavened bread you will eat for seven days and leaven will not appear among you in your entire border.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; nothing leavened shall be seen with thee, neither shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders.

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Audio Bible



Context
The Dedication of the Firstborn
6For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD. 7Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders. 8And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’…

Cross References
Exodus 12:15
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:19
For 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.

Exodus 23:15
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:18
You 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.

Leviticus 23:6
On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Deuteronomy 16:3
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:8
For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

Numbers 28:17
On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.

Joshua 5:11
The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

2 Chronicles 30:21
The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.

Matthew 16:6
“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 16:11-12
How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” / Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Mark 8:15
“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”

Luke 12:1
In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough? / Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore 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.


Treasury of Scripture

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen with you in all your quarters.

Exodus 12:19
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

Matthew 16:6
Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

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Exodus 13
1. The firstborn are sanctified to God
3. The memorial of the Passover is commanded
11. The firstborn of man and beast are set apart
17. The Israelites go out of Egypt, and carry Joseph's bones with them.
20. They come to Etham
21. God guides them by a pillar of a cloud, and a pillar of fire














Unleavened bread
The Hebrew term for unleavened bread is "matzot," which refers to bread made without yeast. In the context of the Exodus, unleavened bread symbolizes purity and separation from sin, as leaven often represents sin or corruption in the Bible. The Israelites were commanded to eat unleavened bread during the Passover to commemorate their hasty departure from Egypt, where there was no time to let the dough rise. This act of eating unleavened bread serves as a reminder of God's deliverance and the need for spiritual readiness and purity.

shall be eaten for seven days
The number seven in the Bible often signifies completeness or perfection. The seven-day period of eating unleavened bread during the Feast of Unleavened Bread represents a complete cycle of purification and dedication to God. This practice is a call for the Israelites to remember their deliverance and to live in a state of holiness, setting aside a complete period to focus on God's provision and their covenant relationship with Him.

and nothing leavened shall be seen among you
The prohibition against leavened products underscores the importance of removing sin and corruption from one's life. In a broader spiritual sense, this commandment calls believers to examine their lives and remove anything that might lead them away from God. The absence of leaven in their homes and communities serves as a physical representation of the spiritual cleansing that God desires for His people.

nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your territory
This phrase extends the command beyond individual households to the entire community, emphasizing the collective responsibility of the Israelites to maintain purity and holiness. It highlights the importance of communal faithfulness and accountability. The absence of leaven throughout the territory symbolizes a unified commitment to God's commandments and a shared identity as His chosen people. This communal aspect reinforces the idea that holiness is not just an individual pursuit but a collective endeavor that strengthens the entire community of believers.

Verse 7. - Here again the injunctions are mere repetitious of commands already given in ch. 12. (See verses 15 and 19.) Repetition was no doubt had recourse to in order to deepen the impression.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Unleavened bread
מַצּוֹת֙ (maṣ·ṣō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4682: Sweetness, sweet, an unfermented cake, loaf, the festival of Passover

shall be eaten
יֵֽאָכֵ֔ל (yê·’ā·ḵêl)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

during those seven
שִׁבְעַ֣ת (šiḇ·‘aṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

days.
הַיָּמִ֑ים (hay·yā·mîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

Nothing
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

leavened
חָמֵ֗ץ (ḥā·mêṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2557: That which is leavened

may be found among you,
יֵרָאֶ֨ה (yê·rā·’eh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

nor shall
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

yeast
שְׂאֹ֖ר (śə·’ōr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7603: Barm, yeast-cake

be found
יֵרָאֶ֥ה (yê·rā·’eh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

anywhere within
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your
לְךָ֛ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

borders.
גְּבֻלֶֽךָ׃ (gə·ḇu·le·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed


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