Purpose of Unleavened Bread
Last Updated : July 25, 2006
The Bible tells us that unleavened bread was eaten with
bitter herbs, as a reminder to the Israelites of the bitter
years they spent in bondage to the Egyptians. In describing
this bread, and why it was eaten, the KJV Bible informs us
of the following:
"And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in
morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the
field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was
with rigour."
Exodus 1:14, KJV
"Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt
thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of
affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt
in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life."
Deuteronomy 16:3, KJV
"And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with
fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall
eat it."
Exodus 12:8, KJV
"The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall
keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs."
Numbers 9:11, KJV
"And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with
oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten
flour shalt thou make them."
Exodus 29:2, KJV
According to my Hebrew lexicon, the term "unleavend bread"
is derived from the word "matstsah", pronounced mats-tsaw',
which it defines as "bread or cake without leaven". It also
states that "matstsah" is in turn derived from "matsats",
pronounced maw-tsats', which means to drain out or suck. In
referring to this second Hebrew word, the lexicon states "in
the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness".
It is quite possible then, that unleavened bread, while it
may have been heavy and flat, may also have been sweet to
the taste.
To add support for this idea, consider the following verse
from the Book of Ezekiel; taking into account that the word
"meat", is also translated as "bread":
"My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before
them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord
GOD."
Ezekiel 16:19, KJV
And of course, "Every day with Jesus, (the true Bread of
Life -- from Bethlehem, the "house of bread"), is sweeter
than the day before!"
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