Thematic Bible: For bread
Thematic Bible
Leaven (yeast) » For bread
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.
He spoke another parable to them, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”
They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.