Exodus 12:20

Exodus 12:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
• New International Version (NIV)Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread."
• New King James Version (NKJV)You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”

Context of Exodus 12:20

18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, [and continue] until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off and excluded from [the atonement made for] the congregation of Israel, whether a stranger or native-born. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ” 21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take a lamb for yourselves according to [the size of] your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22You shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch some of the blood to the lintel [above the doorway] and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

Exodus 12:20 word by word

כָּל־מַחְמֶ֖צֶת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ בְּכֹל֙ מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם תֹּאכְל֖וּ מַצּֽוֹת׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ye shall eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• nothing leavenedחָמֵץchâmêts · be sourH2556
• in all your habitationsמוֹשָׁבmôshâb môshâb · seatH4186
• unleavened breadמַצָּהmatstsâh · unleavened breadH4682

Commentaries on Exodus 12:20

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-30The Lord gave Moses instructions for the Passover meal and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (12:14–20). Moses and the people then celebrated the first Passover (12:21–30).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-5115. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, &c.--This was to commemorate another circumstance in the departure of the Israelites, who were urged to leave so hurriedly that their dough was unleavened (Ex 12:39), and they had to eat unleavened cakes (De 16:3). The greatest care was always taken by the Jews to free their houses from leaven--the owner searching every corner of his dwelling with a lighted candle. A figurative allusion to this is made (1Co…Read the comment

Topics related to Exodus 12:20

• Blood
• Israel
• Leaven (Yeast)
• Month
• Passover
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

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• Blood
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• Passover
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Commentaries on Exodus 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings