Exodus 12:20

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

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

In Context

19For 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.

21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:2-21

The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his… Read the whole commentary →

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