For seven days you are to eat matzot,... - Exodus 12:15
Unleavened bread is a seven-day memorial Feast which begins on the 15th day of the Nisan which is a
High Sabbath and ends on the 21st day of the month of Nisan which is also a High Sabbath. We observe this Appointed Time by removing all of the chametz (hametz) from our homes as commanded in Exodus
12:14-15, Leviticus 23:6-8 and many other verses. We recognize that the search for chametz is more than
a search for physical yeast but that yeast was used a symbol of sin within each of us which results in
malice and wickedness as we read in 1 Corinthians 5:6-8.
High Sabbath and ends on the 21st day of the month of Nisan which is also a High Sabbath. We observe this Appointed Time by removing all of the chametz (hametz) from our homes as commanded in Exodus
12:14-15, Leviticus 23:6-8 and many other verses. We recognize that the search for chametz is more than
a search for physical yeast but that yeast was used a symbol of sin within each of us which results in
malice and wickedness as we read in 1 Corinthians 5:6-8.
Biblical References
“This day is to be a memorial for you. You are to keep it as a feast to Adonai. Throughout your
generations you are to keep it as an eternal ordinance. For seven days you are to eat matzot, but on the
first day you must remove hametz from your houses, for whoever eats hametz from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel...During the first month in the evening of the fourteenth
day of the month, you are to eat matzot, until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. For seven
days no hametz is to be found in your houses, for whoever eats hametz, that soul will be cut off from the
congregation of Israel, whether he is an outsider or one who is born in the land. You are to eat no hametz;
in all your houses you are to eat matzot.” Exodus 12:14-15, 18-20 TLV
“On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Matzot to Adonai. For seven days you are to eat
matzah. On the first day you are to have a holy convocation and you should do no regular work. Instead
you are to present an offering made by fire to Adonai for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy
convocation, when you are to do no regular work.” Leviticus 23:6-8 TLV
“Your boasting is no good. Don’t you know that a little hametz leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid
of the old hametz, so you may be a new batch, just as you are unleavened—for Messiah, our Passover
Lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast not with old hametz, the hametz of malice
and wickedness, but with unleavened bread—the matzah of sincerity and truth.” 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 TLV
generations you are to keep it as an eternal ordinance. For seven days you are to eat matzot, but on the
first day you must remove hametz from your houses, for whoever eats hametz from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel...During the first month in the evening of the fourteenth
day of the month, you are to eat matzot, until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. For seven
days no hametz is to be found in your houses, for whoever eats hametz, that soul will be cut off from the
congregation of Israel, whether he is an outsider or one who is born in the land. You are to eat no hametz;
in all your houses you are to eat matzot.” Exodus 12:14-15, 18-20 TLV
“On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Matzot to Adonai. For seven days you are to eat
matzah. On the first day you are to have a holy convocation and you should do no regular work. Instead
you are to present an offering made by fire to Adonai for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy
convocation, when you are to do no regular work.” Leviticus 23:6-8 TLV
“Your boasting is no good. Don’t you know that a little hametz leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid
of the old hametz, so you may be a new batch, just as you are unleavened—for Messiah, our Passover
Lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast not with old hametz, the hametz of malice
and wickedness, but with unleavened bread—the matzah of sincerity and truth.” 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 TLV