מַצָּה

matstsah

mah-TSAH

unleavened bread

Where it comes from

Bread without leaven is bread that had no time to rise. It is called the bread of affliction, and it is eaten to remember leaving in a hurry. The flat loaf is a calendar: it says you left before you were ready, and you left anyway.

Every place it appears

Strong's H4682. It stands in 42 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. See them →

Exodus 12:17

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

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