For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. The seven-day feast of Unleavened Bread attached to Passover extends the observance into the week. The removal of yeast from the house is a thorough cleansing — every corner, every storage jar, every crumb. Paul draws on this in 1 Corinthians 5:7–8: get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new unleavened batch — for Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. The removal of yeast from the physical house becomes the removal of corruption from the spiritual community.

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