What the Bible says about

Leaven (Yeast)

23 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.”
Exodus 12:34 BSB
“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.”
Exodus 12:39 BSB
“They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.”
Hosea 7:4 BSB
“He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.””
Matthew 13:33 BSB
“Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.”
Leviticus 7:13 BSB
“Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.”
Amos 4:5 BSB
“From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.”
Leviticus 23:15-17 BSB
“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 an offering made by fire to the LORD.”
Leviticus 2:11 BSB
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