EX 12:14-20 Feast of Unleavened Bread Law

Law

• This day shall be a memorial for you. 

• You shall keep it as a feast to YHWH. 

• You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. 

• Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; 

• Even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 

• In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you. 

• You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. 

• Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. 

• In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. 

• There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. 

• You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.

Judgment

• For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

• For whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. 

Biblical Example

• This is a biblical example of the Feast of Unleavened Bread Law being followed. 

The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate, 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

Ezra 6:21-22 (WEB)

This biblical example is referring to after Israel returned from Babylonian captivity and rebuilt The Temple according to the decree of King Cyrus and King Darius of Persia.