Exodus 13:7

7 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; nothing leavened shall be seen with thee, neither shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders.

Exodus 13:7 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 13:7

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days
From the evening of the fourteenth day, to the evening of the twenty first, ( Exodus 12:18 ) , this is very express as before, that not only they were to abstain from leaven, but that they were obliged to eat unleavened bread; and as for the cakes of eggs and sugar the Jews now use, these, as Leo Modeua says F26, are for those that are dainty and of tender stomachs and such as are sick, who eat unleavened bread also; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall
there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters:
(See Gill on Exodus 12:15) and the above mentioned writer says F1,

``they begin before the passover, with all the diligence and care they can, to put away all leaven, or anything that hath had leaven in it, out of their houses, and out of their power; searching all their cupboards and bins, and cleansing the whole house and whiting it all over; and they provide themselves also of new utensils for their kitchen and table; or else they new make the old again, and scour them well; or else they have a select number of vessels set apart for the use of the passover only, that so they may be certainly assured that they use not anything during those eight days, that hath had leaven in it:''
and Aben Ezra upon the place says, that the sense of it is, that the Israelites ought not to suffer any to sojourn in any place subject to them, but on this condition, that they abstain from leavened bread at the time of the passover, and this he takes to be the meaning of the phrase, "in all thy quarters or borders".
FOOTNOTES:

F26 History of the Rites of the Jews, par. 3. c. 3. sect. 5.
F1 Ib. sect. 4.

Exodus 13:7 In-Context

5 And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Evites, and Jebusites, and Gergesites, and Pherezites, which he sware to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this service in this month.
6 Six days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a feast to the Lord.
7 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; nothing leavened shall be seen with thee, neither shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders.
8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, Therefore the Lord dealt thus with me, as I was going out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be to thee a sign upon thy hand and a memorial before thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God brought thee out of Egypt.

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.