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Contemporary English Version

Exodus 12:20

Stay away from yeast, no matter where you live. No one is allowed to eat anything made with yeast!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blood;   Israel;   Leaven (Yeast);   Month;   Passover;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Leaven;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;   Feast of the Passover, the;   Leaven;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   Passover;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Celebrate, Celebration;   Discipline;   Education in Bible Times;   Lamb, Lamb of God;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Remember, Remembrance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Passover;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Sacrifice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Festivals;   Leaven;   Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Moses;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Passover, the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leaven;   Passover;   Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Pass'over,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   On to Sinai;   Hebrew Calendar;   Sabbath and Feasts;   Priesthood, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Day;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Passover;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Festivals;   Hafá¹­arah;   Law, Reading from the;   Leaven;   Parashiyyot, the Four;   Passover Sacrifice;   Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat matzah.'"
King James Version
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Lexham English Bible
You will eat no food with yeast; in all of your dwellings you will eat unleavened bread."
New Century Version
During this feast you must not eat anything made with yeast. You must eat only bread made without yeast wherever you live."
New English Translation
You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.'"
Amplified Bible
'You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
New American Standard Bible
'You shall not eat anything with yeast; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall eate no leauened bread: but in all your habitations shall ye eate vnleauened bread.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your places of habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
Complete Jewish Bible
Eat nothing with hametz in it. Wherever you live, eat matzah.'"
Darby Translation
Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your dwellings shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Easy-to-Read Version
During this festival you must not eat any yeast. You must eat bread without yeast wherever you live."
English Standard Version
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread."
George Lamsa Translation
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
Literal Translation
You shall not eat leaven, none. You shall eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore eate no leuended bred, but onely vnleuended bred in all youre dwellynges.
American Standard Version
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Bible in Basic English
Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall eate nothyng leauened: but in all your habitations shall ye eate vnleauened bread.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'
King James Version (1611)
Yee shall eate nothing leauened: in all your habitations shall ye eate vnleauened bread.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall eat nothing leavened, but in every habitation of your ye shall eat unleavened bread.
English Revised Version
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Berean Standard Bible
You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen not ete ony thing diyt with sour dow, and ye schulen ete therf breed in alle youre dwellyng placis.
Young's Literal Translation
anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'
Update Bible Version
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
World English Bible
You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
New King James Version
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread."'
New Living Translation
During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast."
New Life Bible
Do not eat anything with yeast. You must eat bread made without yeast in all your homes."
New Revised Standard
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall eat unleavened bread.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nothing leavened, shall ye eat, - in all your dwellings, shall ye eat unleavened cakes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
Revised Standard Version
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

Contextual Overview

1 Some time later the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 2 This month is to be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell the people of Israel that on the tenth day of this month the head of each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for his family to eat. 4If any family is too small to eat the whole animal, they must share it with their next-door neighbors. Choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. And it must be large enough for everyone to have some of the meat. 6 Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed. 7 Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten. 8 That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs and thin bread made without yeast. 9 Don't eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted. 10 Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left. 11 When you eat the meal, be dressed and ready to travel. Have your sandals on, carry your walking stick in your hand, and eat quickly. This is the Passover Festival in honor of me, your Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:15 - that soul Exodus 34:25 - leaven Leviticus 2:11 - no leaven Deuteronomy 16:3 - eat no

Cross-References

Genesis 12:6
Abram went as far as the sacred tree of Moreh in a place called Shechem. The Canaanites were still living in the land at that time,
Genesis 12:14
As soon as Abram and Sarai arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians noticed how beautiful she was.
Genesis 12:15
The king's officials told him about her, and she was taken to his house.
Exodus 18:27
After Moses and his father-in-law Jethro had said good-by to each other, Jethro returned home.
Proverbs 21:1
The Lord controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall eat nothing leavened,.... Bread or anything else that had any leaven in it:

in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread, that is, if they eat any bread at all, it must be such; otherwise they might eat cakes of almonds or of eggs mixed with sugar, provided there was no leaven used, and this the Jews call the rich unleavened bread p: this is repeated over and over, that they might be the more careful of observing this precept; but as this was limited for a certain time, it plainly appears to be a mistake of Tacitus q the Roman historian, who represents unleavened bread as the bread the Jews eat of in common.

p See Leo Modena's History of the Rites, &c. of the Jews, par. 3. c. 3. sect. 5. q Hist. l. 5. c. 4.


 
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