The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.

For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people."

(SEE 12:19)

They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.

Moses said to the people, "Remember this day---the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. This is the day the LORD brought you out by his great power. No leavened bread is to be eaten.

The LORD solemnly promised your ancestors to give you the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. When he brings you into that rich and fertile land, you must celebrate this festival in the first month of every year.

For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.

"Keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I have commanded you, eat unleavened bread for seven days in the month of Abib, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.

On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast.

you are permitted to observe it one month later instead, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the second month. Celebrate it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

On the fifteenth day a religious festival begins which lasts seven days, during which only bread prepared without yeast is to be eaten.

Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth.

Tell them to throw him in prison and to put him on bread and water until I return safely."

Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.

It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the LORD provides for those he loves, while they are asleep.

"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.

For the sadness that is used by God brings a change of heart that leads to salvation---and there is no regret in that! But sadness that is merely human causes death.

See what God did with this sadness of yours: how earnest it has made you, how eager to prove your innocence! Such indignation, such alarm, such feelings, such devotion, such readiness to punish wrongdoing! You have shown yourselves to be without fault in the whole matter.

You imitated us and the Lord; and even though you suffered much, you received the message with the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.

Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."

The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."

They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.

You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the LORD, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."

When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean?'

you will answer, 'It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the LORD, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.' " The Israelites knelt down and worshiped.

For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.

This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on your hand or on your forehead; it will remind you to continue to recite and study the Law of the LORD, because the LORD brought you out of Egypt by his great power.

The LORD does not let us forget his wonderful actions; he is kind and merciful.

Then he took a piece of bread, gave thanks to God, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

gave thanks to God, broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me."

This means that every time you eat this bread and drink from this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.