Numbers 28:17
The Festival of Unleavened Bread will start on the next day. For the following seven days, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 13:6For seven days the bread that you eat must not have any yeast in it. On the seventh day there must be a festival to honor Yahweh.
Exodus 34:18Each year, during the month of/named Abib, celebrate the Festival of Eating Bread Made Without Yeast. During that festival, for seven days you must not eat bread made with yeast, as I commanded you, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:3When you eat the Passover meal, the bread that you eat must not have yeast in it. You must eat this kind of bread, which will be called the bread of suffering/misery, for seven days. This is to help you to remember all during the time that you are alive that when your ancestors left Egypt, where they were suffering because they were slaves, they left very quickly. They did not put in yeast and wait for the dough to swell up.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 28:17-31
16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord . 17 And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18 In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein: 19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the Lord ; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: 20 And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled… Read the whole commentary →