unleavened bread
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3You shall not eat it with leavened bread. For seven days you shall eat, without leaven, the bread of affliction. For you departed from Egypt in fear. So may you remember the day of your departure from Egypt, throughout all the days of your life.
6It is not good for you to glory. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the entire mass? 7Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated. 8And so, let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
8And so, let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, toward evening, you shall consume the unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the same month, toward evening.
3He pressed them very much to turn aside to him. And when they had entered his house, he made a feast for them, and he cooked unleavened bread, and they ate.
7Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated.
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy. 3For six days you shall do work; the seventh day, because it is the rest of the Sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwelling places. 4Therefore, these are the feasts of the Lord, which you must celebrate in their times. 5The first month, the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, is the Passover of the Lord. 6And the fifteenth day of this month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. For seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.
6And the fifteenth day of this month is the solemnity of the unleavened bread of the Lord. For seven days shall you eat unleavened bread.
50This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die. 51I am the living bread, who descended from heaven. 52If anyone eats from this bread, he shall live in eternity. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” 53Therefore, the Jews debated among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 54And so, Jesus said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. 55Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
15For seven days, you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses. Whoever will consume anything leavened, from the first day, even until the seventh day, that soul shall perish from Israel.
47Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died. 50This is the bread which descends from heaven, so that if anyone will eat from it, he may not die.
12Then they understood that he was not saying that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
1Then, as great crowds were standing so close that they were stepping on one another, he began to say to his disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
20I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.