Exodus 13:7

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.”

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BSBPD

“Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“unleavened things are eaten the seven days, and any thing fermented is not seen with thee; yea, leaven is not seen with thee in all thy border.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 13:7 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:19For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
  2. Deuteronomy 16:4No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
  3. Joshua 5:11The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
  4. Matthew 16:6“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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