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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