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They must be sure to keep the feast of unleavened bread, Ex 13:5-7. It was not enough that they remembered it, but they must celebrate the memorial of it in that way which God had appointed, and use the instituted means of preserving the remembrance of it. So, under the gospel, we must not only remember Christ, but do this in remembrance of him. Observe, How strict the prohibition of leaven is (Ex 13:7); not only no leaven must be eaten, but none must be seen, no, not in all their quarters. Accordingly, the Jews' usage was, before the feast of the Passover, to cast all the leavened bread out of their houses: they burnt it, or buried it, or broke it small and scattered it in the wind; they searched diligently with lighted candles in all the corners of their houses, lest any leaven should remain. The care and strictness enjoined in this matter were designed,
(1.) To make the feast the more solemn, and consequently the more taken notice of by their children, who would ask, "Why is so much ado made?"
(2.) To teach us how solicitous we should be to put away from us all sin, 1Co 5:7.
7 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.
8 And thou shalt show thy son in that day, saying, this is done because
of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
They must instruct their children in the meaning of it, and relate to them the story of their deliverance out of Egypt, Ex 13:8. Note,
(1.) Care must be taken betimes to instruct children in the knowledge of God. Here is an ancient law for catechising.