What Does Exodus 13:7 Mean in the King James?
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse names both the fermented food and its starter, making the clearing reach the cause as well as the result.
THE MEANING
The clearing reaches the reader’s whole domain: both what is consumed and what is kept nearby are in view. The movement out of Mitzrayim (מִצְרַיִם, “the two narrows”) reaches ordinary space, making the absence of ferment part of the passage toward wholeness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that removing the visible product is enough while its source stays hidden: the verse names both, across the whole boundary.
THE ROOT
חָמֵץ
chametz
GROWS FROM
ח־מ־ץ
ḥ-m-ṣ
To be sour or fermented; by extension, to be leavened.
“leavened bread” in this verse is chametz. The root ties leavened food to souring and fermentation, a process rather than just an ingredient. The verse also names שְׂאֹר (se’or, leavening starter), reaching from the fermented food to the agent that ferments it.
ALSO GROWS
chametz: Leavened food; something fermented.
חָמֵץ
It names the finished product that is excluded from the meal and the household.
chometz: Vinegar or sour wine.
חֹמֶץ
It shares the root’s souring quality, showing the transformation contained in the word for leavened food.
THE PATTERN
A small ferment works through a whole measure, so its presence or removal becomes a whole-domain matter.
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?THE THREAD
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 uses the same Hebrew חָמֵץ (chametz, leavened food) and ties the leaven-free meal to leaving Mitzrayim (מִצְרַיִם, “the two narrows”). The shared root gives the absence a direction: the cleared meal marks movement out of constriction.
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