³ Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt,^(A) out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand.^(B) Eat nothing containing yeast.^{(C) 4} Today, in the month of Aviv,^(D) you are leaving. ⁵ When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,^(E) Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites^(F)—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey^(G)—you are to observe this ceremony^(H) in this month: ⁶ For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival^(I) to the Lord. ⁷ Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. ⁸ On that day tell your son,^(J) ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ ⁹ This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand^(K) and a reminder on your forehead^(L) that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.^{(M) 10} You must keep this ordinance^(N) at the appointed time^(O) year after year.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

⁵ When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. ⁶ “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”^(A)

⁷ They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.”

⁸ Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith,^(B) why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? ⁹ Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?^{(C) 10} Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?^{(D) 11} How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” ¹² Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.^(E)