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Feast of Unleavened Bread

15th Day through the 21st Day of the 1st Month

Overview

The Feast of Unleavened Bread, sometimes referred to as the “Feast of Unleavened”, is held from the 15th day of the 1st month through the 21st day of the 1st month, lasting 7 days.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread includes observing Firstfruits.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a mo’edim (appointed time) that is to be celebrated each year (forever) according to Torah.

Unleavened Bread

Torah Requirements

General commandments:

  • The 15th day of the 1st month is a Shabbat (day of rest) – no laborious work is to be done
  • The 21st day of the 1st month is a Shabbat (day of rest) – no laborious work is to be done
  • In the morning of the 15th day of the 1st month (the day after eating the Passover), you may return to your home outside of Jerusalem to continue observing the Feast of Unleavened Bread
  • Unleavened bread is to be eaten on each day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread
  • On the final day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread a “feast” is to be held
  • During the entire Feast of Unleavened Bread, leavened foods are prohibited and no leavening is to be found in your dwelling
  • 2 silver trumpets are to be blown over the burnt offerings

Required burnt offerings (`olah):

  • 2 young male bulls without blemish
  • 1 ram without blemish
  • 7 male lambs, each 1 year old, without blemish

Required food offerings (minchah) for the burnt offerings (`olah):

  • Flour mixed with oil (3/10 of an ephah for each of the 2 bulls, 2/10 of an ephah for the ram, 1/10 of an ephah for each of the 7 lambs)

Required sin offerings (chatta’ah):

  • 1  male goat

Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Torah

Exodus 12:15 You shall eat unleavened bread seven days. Indeed, on the first day you shall cause leaven to cease from your houses. For anyone eating any leaven, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.
Exodus 12:16 And on the first day shall be a holy assembly (rehearsal), and in the seventh day a holy assembly (rehearsal), shall be to you. Not any work may be done on them. Only what must be eaten by each soul that alone may be done by you.
Exodus 12:17 And you shall observe the unleavened bread for on this very day I brought out your armies from the land of Egypt. And you shall observe this day for your generations, a statute forever.
Exodus 12:18 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.
Exodus 12:19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For anyone eating any leaven, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the foreigners, and among the natives of the land.
Exodus 12:20 You shall not eat anything leaven. You shall eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.

Exodus 13:3 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slaves. For by the might of His hand YAHWEH brought you out from here. And no leaven shall be eaten.
Exodus 13:4 Today, in the month of the Aviv, you are going out.
Exodus 13:5 And it shall be when YAHWEH brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall do this service in this month.
Exodus 13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day keep a feast to YAHWEH.
Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten the seven days. And leavened bread for you shall not be seen; yea, no leaven shall be seen among you in all your boundaries.
Exodus 13:8 And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of what YAHWEH did for me when I came out from Egypt.
Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and a memorial between your eyes, so that the Torah of YAHWEH may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand YAHWEH brought you out from Egypt.
Exodus 13:10 And you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time, from year to year.

Exodus 23:14 Three times in the year you shall make a feast to Me.
Exodus 23:15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the set time of the month of Aviv. For in it you came out from Egypt, and they shall not appear before Me empty.
Exodus 23:16 Also the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. Also the Feast of Ingathering, at the going out of the year, at your gathering your work from the field.
Exodus 23:17 Three times in the year every one of your males shall appear before the Adon YAHWEH.
Exodus 23:18 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven. And the fat of My feast shall not pass the night until morning.

Exodus 34:18 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened; seven days you shall eat unleavened things, which I commanded you, at the time appointed, the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you went out from Egypt.

AND…

Exodus 34:23 Three times in the year every male of yours shall be seen before the face of Adonai YAHWEH, the Elohim of Israel.

Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened to YAHWEH; you shall eat unleavened things seven days.
Leviticus 23:7 On the first day you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no laborious work;
Leviticus 23:8 and you shall bring near a fire offering to YAHWEH seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy gathering; you shall do no laborious work.

Numbers 10:1 And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 10:2 Make two trumpets of silver for yourself. You shall make them of hammered work, and they shall be to you for the calling of the congregation, and for causing the camps to pull up stakes.
Numbers 10:3 And when they blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 10:4 And if they blow with one, then the rulers, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall assemble to you.
Numbers 10:5 And when you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall then pull up stakes.
Numbers 10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall pull up stakes; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
Numbers 10:7 But when the assembly is gathered, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets. And they shall be to you for a never ending statute throughout your generations.
Numbers 10:9 And when you go into battle in your land against the foe distressing you, then you shall blow with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before YAHWEH your Elohim. And you shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers 10:10 And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and in your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. And they shall be to you for a memorial before your Elohim. I am YAHWEH your Elohim.

Numbers 28:17 And in the fifteenth day of this month a feast: unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days.
Numbers 28:18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no work of service.
Numbers 28:19 And you shall offer a fire offering, a burnt offering to YAHWEH: two bulls, sons of the herd, and one ram, and seven lambs, sons of a year; they shall be ones without blemish for you;
Numbers 28:20 and their food offering, flour mixed with oil. You shall prepare three tenths parts for a bull, and two tenths parts for a ram.
Numbers 28:21 You shall prepare one tenth part for the one lamb, and for the seven lambs;
Numbers 28:22 and one goat, a sin offering to atone for you,
Numbers 28:23 besides the burnt offering of the morning, the continual burnt offering, you shall prepare these.
Numbers 28:24 In this way you shall prepare daily, seven days, bread for a fire offering, a soothing fragrance to YAHWEH. It shall be prepared besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
Numbers 28:25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service.

Deuteronomy 16:2 And you shall sacrifice a Passover to YAHWEH your Elohim of the flock, and of the herd, in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there (Jerusalem).
Deuteronomy 16:3 You shall eat with it no leaven. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction. For you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, so that you may remember the day that you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 16:4 And there shall be no leaven seen with you in your borders seven days; nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrificed the first day at evening remain all night until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16:5 You may not sacrifice the Passover offering inside any of your gates, which YAHWEH your Elohim gives you.
Deuteronomy 16:6 But at the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there (Jerusalem), you shall sacrifice the Passover offering at evening, at the going of the sun, at the time when you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:7 And you shall cook and eat in the place which YAHWEH your Elohim shall choose (Jerusalem). And in the morning you shall turn and go into your tents.
Deuteronomy 16:8 You shall eat unleavened things six days, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to YAHWEH your Elohim. You shall do no work.