Unleavened bread

Bread baked without yeast, often made because of insufficient time to prepare bread in the conventional manner. It was also eaten at the Passover Feast and was presented with sacrifices and offerings.

Unleavened bread prepared in haste

Exodus 12:39 See also Genesis 19:1–3; Exodus 12:8–11; Judges 6:17–19; 1 Samuel 28:21–25

Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

Unleavened bread eaten to commemorate the Passover

Exodus 12:1–20, Exodus 13:3–7, Exodus 23:15, Exodus 34:18; Leviticus 23:5–6 parallel Numbers 28:16–17; Numbers 9:9–11; Deuteronomy 16:1–4, Deuteronomy 16:8; Ezekiel 45:21

Unleavened bread presented to God as an offering

Leviticus 2:11 See also Exodus 29:2–4 parallel Leviticus 8:1–3; Exodus 29:22–25 parallel Leviticus 8:25–28; Leviticus 2:4–5, Leviticus 6:14–17, Leviticus 7:11–12; Numbers 6:13–20

No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.

Symbolism of unleavened bread

1 Corinthians 5:6–8