8058. 'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread' means purification from falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'seven days' as that which implies something holy, dealt with in 395, 433, 716, 881, 5265, 5268, and as a complete state, 6508; and from the meaning of 'eating unleavened bread' as making truth one's own and as purification from falsity, for 'the unleavened' is good purified from falsity, and 'eating' making one's own, 3168, 3513, 3596, 3832, 4745. The reason why 'the unleavened' is good purified from falsity is that 'bread' means good and 'yeast' falsity.

881. 'Seven' means that which is holy because now charity is the subject. This is clear from the meaning of the number seven, dealt with already in 395, 716. Furthermore 'seven' has been brought in here so that all things may be linked together as though they were historical events, for in the internal sense 'seven' and 'seven days' contribute nothing more to the meaning than a certain holiness which this second state possesses from what is celestial, that is, from charity.