Exodus 12:20 meaning and explanation

You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

Exodus 12:20, Berean Standard Bible

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These words close the LORD's instructions to Moses and Aaron about the Feast of Unleavened Bread, given in Egypt on the night of the tenth plague. Leaven, the yeast that puffs up dough, was to be removed from every house for seven days, and anyone who ate leavened bread was to be cut off from Israel.

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