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Young's Literal Translation

Exodus 12:20

anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'

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;   Hafṭarah;   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.'"
Contemporary English Version
Stay away from yeast, no matter where you live. No one is allowed to eat anything made with yeast!
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.
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 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 `This month [is] to you the chief of months -- it [is] the first to you of the months of the year; 3 speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month -- they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house. 4 `(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,) 5 a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take [it]. 6 `And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings; 7 and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it. 8 `And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it; 9 ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards; 10 and ye do not leave of it till morning, and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn.

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
And Abram passeth over into the land, unto the place Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.
Genesis 12:11
and it cometh to pass as he hath drawn near to enter Egypt, that he saith unto Sarai his wife, `Lo, I pray thee, I have known that thou [art] a woman of beautiful appearance;
Genesis 12:14
And it cometh to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceeding fair;
Genesis 12:15
and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh's house;
Exodus 18:27
And Moses sendeth his father-in-law away, and he goeth away unto his own land.
Proverbs 21:1
Rivulets of waters [is] the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.

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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