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NASB | Exodus 13:9 "And it shall serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 13:9 "It shall serve as a sign to you on your hand (arm), and as a reminder on your forehead, so that the instruction (law) of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a strong and powerful hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. |
Bible Question: Exo 29-30 bread w/o yeast? |
Bible Answer: Welcome to the Bible Forum. You must be new to Jewish History. Generally, unleavened bread was a custom started long ago indicating devotion to God. I looked and the very first mention of this kind of bread is in Gen 19 with Lot's meal with angels in Sodom before its destruction. So it seems this custom could have possibly been done to simply rush the meal as it takes a little while for leavened bread to rise. But the most memorable reason for most is from... Ex 13:3 And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 On this day you are going out, in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. 8 And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ 9 It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. And of course it sets the precedent for us as christians when we observe and partake of the Communion or the Lord's Supper as described in... Matt 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Now of course, the Lord and His disciples started this meal as their traditional Passover Meal and a person could ask why didn't Jesus do something different. But I think it's was a good thing that He was following the Pattern from His Father's preference for unleavened bread. It's something that gives us human beings an additional reason to pause and think about what we observing in the Lord's Supper, His being the Ultimate Sacrifice. Remember we're not doing this for us or any other reason as thought by man. We're following God's Commands because He's God and that's the Pattern He set for us. Hope this helps; Go with God in all His Ways, Bill |
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