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Then Moses said this to the people:

Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, where you were slaves.[a] For by the strength of his hand the Lord brought you out from there. Nothing with leaven[b] may be eaten. Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving. So when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—the land he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to perform this ceremony during this month:

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:3 Literally the house of slaves
  2. Exodus 13:3 Yeast is the most common kind of leaven, but the terms are not synonymous. Yeast is an organism. Leaven is any agent that causes bread to rise. Leaven in the Bible was frequently a clump of fermented dough that had been reserved.