Deuteronomy 16:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

Eat no

1 Corinthians 5:8

For thou camest

Exodus 12:32

Mayest

1 Corinthians 11:24

General references

Exodus 13:10

Exodus 34:18

Bible References

Eat no

You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

Moses said to the people: Remember this day in the month of Abib. It is the day Jehovah's mighty power rescued you from slavery in Egypt. Do not eat anything made with yeast.

Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you must eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib. This is because in that month you came out of Egypt.

The fifteenth day of the same month the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins. You must not eat any bread made with yeast for seven days.

You will celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at dusk. Eat the Passover animal along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

The feast of unleavened bread in the fifteenth of this same month. For seven days you must eat only unleavened bread.

Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For thou camest

Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!

Mayest

This day will be a memorial to you. You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah. You are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance throughout your generations.

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. No leavened bread shall be seen with you or in all your borders.

He has made his miracles unforgettable. Jehovah is gracious and compassionate.

He gave thanks. Then he took the bread, broke it and gave it to them, saying: This represents my body that is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.

And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take and eat. This represents (is) my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.

General references

You must follow these rules every year at this time.