The Meaning of Exodus 12:20 Explained

Exodus 12:20

KJV: Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

YLT: anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'

Darby: Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your dwellings shall ye eat unleavened bread.

ASV: Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Ye shall eat  nothing leavened;  in all your habitations  shall ye eat  unleavened bread. 

What does Exodus 12:20 Mean?

Context Summary

Exodus 12:15-28 - The Feast Of Unleavened Bread
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Chapter Summary: Exodus 12

1  The beginning of the year is changed
3  The Passover is instituted
11  The import of the rite of the Passover
15  Unleavened bread
29  The firstborn are slain
31  The Israelites are driven out of the land
37  They come to Succoth
41  The time of their sojourning
43  The ordinance of the Passover

What do the individual words in Exodus 12:20 mean?

Anything leavened not You shall eat in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread -
כָּל־ מַחְמֶ֖צֶת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ בְּכֹל֙ מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם תֹּאכְל֖וּ מַצּֽוֹת פ

כָּל־  Anything 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
מַחְמֶ֖צֶת  leavened 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: חָמֵץ 
Sense: the thing leavened, leaven.
תֹאכֵ֑לוּ  You  shall  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
בְּכֹל֙  in  all 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
מוֹשְׁבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם  your  dwellings 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: מֹושָׁב  
Sense: seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellers.
תֹּאכְל֖וּ  you  shall  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
מַצּֽוֹת  unleavened  bread 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: מַצָּה  
Sense: unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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