Exodus - 12:20



20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

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Differing Translations

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You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your dwellings shall ye eat unleavened bread.
anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'
Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.
You shall not consume any leaven. In all your dwelling places, you shall eat unleavened bread."
Omne fermentum non comedetis: in omnibus habitaculis vestris comedetis infermentata.

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Historical Commentaries

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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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