“Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.”
Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. The prohibition extends beyond personal consumption to visible possession: no yeast is to be seen within your borders. The comprehensive removal of leaven from Israel's territory during the feast week is a community act, not merely a private religious practice. 1 Corinthians 5:7 says purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new batch — the communal removal of leaven is the model for Paul's call to the Corinthian church to remove the person living in unrepentant sin from their midst. The feast of unleavened bread is not just about what individuals eat; it is about the kind of community Israel presents to the world and to God during the week when it commemorates its liberation.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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