Exodus 12:19

12:19 For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast – that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a foreigner or one born in the land.

Matthew 16:6

16:6 “Watch out,” Jesus said to them, “beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

tn “Seven days” is an adverbial accusative of time (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 12, §56).

tn The term is נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh), often translated “soul.” It refers to the whole person, the soul within the body. The noun is feminine, agreeing with the feminine verb “be cut off.”

tn Or “alien”; or “stranger.”

sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.