Ezekiel 45:21

God’s law ordered the people to gather in Jerusalem for the *Passover holiday. It was the most important holiday in *Israel and it lasted for a week. During this holiday, the people remembered how God freed their families. They were slaves in Egypt. (By ‘slaves’, we mean that they had to work very hard for other people.) But God rescued them from there.

At the *Passover, each family would kill a sheep and they would eat it. This reminded them how God saved their families from death. And, during the week, they ate only flat bread, which they baked without *yeast. This reminded them how quickly their families left Egypt. And *yeast became a word picture for *sin (Galatians 5:9). God wanted to free them from *sin, even as he freed them from their work as slaves.