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 of each year, you must eat bread without yeast in it. Do this from the evening of the 14th day until the evening of the 21st day. 19For those seven days, you must not have any yeast in your houses. Whoever eats anything with yeast in it will no longer belong to my people, the Israelites. Everyone must obey these rules, those who live among you as strangers, as well as those who have been born in your land. Eat nothing that has yeast in it. Whatever country you live in, you must eat bread without yeast in it.’ 21Then Moses called the leaders of the Israelites to come to him. He said to them, ‘Go immediately and choose a lamb for each of your families. Then kill the animals for the Passover feast. 22Put the blood into a dish. Then take a branch of hyssop. Make it wet with the blood that is in the dish. Then put some of the blood on the wood that is round your door. Nobody must go out of the door of his house until the 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

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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