# matzah (מַצָּה)

pronounced: ma-TSAH


**Unleavened bread — the bread eaten at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread**

## In Scripture

> They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
> — Exodus 12:8 (Matzah at the first Passover meal)

> “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
> — Exodus 12:15 (Israel is commanded to eat matzah for seven days and remove leaven.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/matzah/