Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
 

12:15 put away leaven. The specific symbolism of the Passover required the absence of leaven, which always in the Bible seems to symbolize a corrupting influence. Leaven is associated with fermentation which is a process of decay (thus representative of God’s curse on the earth), and is also connected with the production of the toxic substance alcohol.

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