Negative Commandment #108 of 613

Do not eat leavened food on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nisan

Commandment #108a prohibition from Deuteronomy 16:3, classified under Appointed Times in the 613 commandments of the Torah.

Scripture

"You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:3

Hebrew

ג לֹא-תֹאכַל עָלָיו חָמֵץ, שִׁבְעַת יָמִים תֹּאכַל-עָלָיו מַצּוֹת לֶחֶם עֹנִי: כִּי בְחִפָּזוֹן, יָצָאתָ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם--לְמַעַן תִּזְכֹּר אֶת-יוֹם צֵאתְךָ מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם, כֹּל יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ.

Greek (Septuagint)

3 οὐ φάγῃ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ζύμην· ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας φάγῃ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἄζυμα, ἄρτον κακώσεως, ὅτι ἐν σπουδῇ ἐξήλθετε ἐξ Αἰγύπτου· ἵνα μνησθῆτε τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐξοδίας ὑμῶν ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς ὑμῶν.

Classification

Type
Negative (Thou Shalt Not)
Book
deuteronomy
Chapter
16

Scholarly References

Parashah
Re'eh
Sefer HaChinuch
#485
Mishneh Torah
TimesLeaven and Unleavened Bread

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