Exodus 13:7

ESV Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.

NIV Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

NASB Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing with yeast shall be seen among you, nor shall any dough with yeast be seen among you in all your borders.

CSB Unleavened bread is to be eaten for those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, and no yeast may be found among you in all your territory.

NLT Eat bread without yeast during those seven days. In fact, there must be no yeast bread or any yeast at all found within the borders of your land during this time.

KJV Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

NKJV Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.

What does Exodus 13:7 mean?

God freed Israel from slavery (Exodus 12:40–41). He commanded them to prepare unleavened bread on the night before (Exodus 12:8). This gave them provisions to carry when they were suddenly rushed to leave Egypt (Exodus 12:33, 39). They had also been commanded to remember these events, in part, with a week-long celebration called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 12:14–20).

Leaven is the yeast which grows and makes bread dough rise. This spreads to invisibly affect every part of the dough (Matthew 13:33; Galatians 5:9). For that reason, Scripture often uses leaven as a metaphor for sin (Matthew 16:6–12; 1 Corinthians 5:6–8). Israel was to remove leaven from their homes and eat only unleavened bread for a week, beginning the night after celebrating Passover (Exodus 12:11–13). This was a serious order; those who defied it were subject to eviction from the Israelite community (Exodus 12:19). To participate was to honor God's intervention and pass its meaning on to future generations (Exodus 13:8).

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