What was the signifigance of the bread made without yeast on the Passover?

Question

Why did God command the Israelites to make bread without yeast for the passover? What did the bread symbolize?

Answer 1

Bread made without yeast on the Passover = is to put out sin in your/our lives. If we look back at the time when God delivered Israel from Egypt; they were coming out of spiritual Egypt---sin.
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Leaven is a symbol of sin.(Exodus 12:1-20)
Leaven caused bread to rise, to "puff up" just as the attitude of sin--or self-will--causes us to puff up and do our own thing.

Jesus made an example of leaven in
MATT.16:6 = "TAKE HEED AND BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE SADDUCEES.
MATT.15:1-20 & MARK 7:2-13 (their own tradition)

As we see further the Bible tells us more:
1COR.6-8 = "YOUR GLORIFYING IS NOT GOOD. KNOW YE NOT THAT A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENTH THE WHOLE LUMP? PURGE OUT THEREFORE THE OLD LEAVEN, THAT YE MAY BE A NEW LUMP, AS YE ARE UNLEAVENED. FOR EVEN CHRIST OUR PASSOVER IS SACRIFICED FOR US. THEREFORE LET US KEEP THE FEAST; NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN, NEATHER WITH THE LEAVEN OF MALUICE AND WICKEDNESS; BUT WITH THE UNLEAVENED BREAD OF SINCERITY AND TRUTH."


What does bread made without yeast mean?
Passover pictures "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in the blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forebearance of God;" (Rom.3:24-25) (ref. 1Cor.5:7,9)

True Christians today are commanded to keep the Passover.
(wine = 1Cor.11:23-26)(wash feet = John 13:5-15)(partaking of bread = 1Cor.11:24)

The broken bread we eat symbolizes Christ's broken body for our physical healing. (Isaiah 53:4-5; Matt.8:16-17)

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Answer 2

God did not command the Israelites to make bread without yeast. God commanded Moses to tell the Israelites to go to bed that night after a meal as if they were out in the wild ( that means meat roasted directly over a flame, not baked in an oven ) with their clothes and shoes on, ready to leave. The Israelites had to leave in a hurry. They did not have time to allow the bread to rise with the leavening normally found in the air ( yeast is an airborne bacteria. If you leave a glass of water and flour on your window sill for a week, you will be making a mother starter for sourdough bread ). So, when the word came after God sent the Angel of Death to kill all the Egyptian first born sons, the Israelites had to pack everything up onto their backs. When the sun rose and beat down on them, the ' bread ' loaves baked on their backs. Hence, why the modern Jew today has matzah for Passover.

Answer 3

Yeast (or leaven) is a symbol of impurity in the scriptures. For example...

Jesus warned his disciples about the "leaven" of the Pharisees (a group of people with unscriptural teachings) Matthew 16:6, 12

Paul made similar application to leaven/yeast at 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

The Israelites were commanded to make bread without yeast for a very important reason. The whole Passover celebration was to foreshadow Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 5:7). Since the bread symbolized Jesus' body (Luke 22:19), adding leaven would signify an impure body. Jesus' body was perfect as was Jesus himself (1 Peter 2:22). Therefore, a bread that was to be used to symbolize Jesus would be free from impurities.

Answer 4

***What was the signifigance of the bread made without yeast on the Passover?***

Life with God versus Life without God.

Mother, when she knows she is exaggerating says that she " added a little yeast" to the story.

An example of the use of leavening follows.

Exodus 3 (NIV)
21 "And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. 22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians."

Sounds just like robbery to me, or was that leavening ?

Answer 5

while there is a symbolic value to the rising and yeast (huaghtiness, which we are to avoid) and the bread is called the "poor man's bread" or the "bread of affliction" which is supposed to help us connect with poor people and remember our suffering, the passover story in the torah says that the literal is still the best reason -- when we left egypt, we didn't have time to wait for dough to ferment and rise -- we baked it quickly so it became a flatbread. to eat it now is to commemorate that exodus.

Answer 6

When the Israelites were leaving Egypt, they were in a great hurry. The bread that they were making did not have time to rise, so it was flat - unleavened. To remember the bread that was made in haste, Matza is eaten on Passover. Check out - http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm

Answer 7

Commemerates when the israelites had to flee eygpt. When they were preparing their breads to flee they did not have enough time to let it rise. As it was flung over there backs and the sun baked the bread. Hence the unleavened bread. It is also a symbolic in removing the arrogance and pride from our souls.

Answer 8

Basically it was practical. When the tribes left Egypt, they were in such a hurry, they didn't have time to let their bread rise.

Some say that yeast is the symbol of sin (must have been somebody with a yeast infection!)

Answer 9

The Israelites did not have time to add yeast in their bread as God told them to leave. The bread reminds them of their bondage.

Answer 10

It was bread made in haste, the bread that would be made by people on the run. Unleavened bread is eaten at Passover in rememberance of the Hebrews' flight to escape bondage in Egypt.