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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.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

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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