Feast of Unleavened Bread refers to the 7-day period starting from the evening of the day when Passover begins. Usually, this period of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are combined and observed as one festival. On this day, unleavened bread is eaten.
Exodus 12:15For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.Exodus 12:16On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare the food everyone needs to eat.Exodus 12:17“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.Exodus 12:18In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you are to eat unleavened bread.Exodus 12:19For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether a foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.Exodus 12:20Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat unleavened bread.”
It is one of the greatest festivals commemorating the liberation of the Israelites from slavery, and it was also observed by the apostles of the early church.
Acts 12:3When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Acts 20:6But we sailed from Philippi after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined the others in Troas, where we stayed seven days.