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3-4 Eat all of the meat of the Passover sacrifice that same night. But don't serve bread made with yeast at the Passover meal. Serve the same kind of thin bread that you ate when you were slaves suffering in Egypt[a] and when you had to leave Egypt quickly. As long as you live, this thin bread will remind you of the day you left Egypt.

For seven days following Passover,[b] don't make any bread with yeast. In fact, there should be no yeast anywhere in Israel.

Don't offer the Passover sacrifice in just any town where you happen to live.

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Footnotes

  1. 16.3,4 the same kind … in Egypt: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 16.3,4 seven days following Passover: This period was called the Festival of Thin Bread (see also verse 16).

Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,(A) because you left Egypt in haste(B)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.(C) Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening(D) of the first day remain until morning.(E)

You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you

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