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Exodus 12:19
ESV For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
NIV For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
NASB For seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
CSB Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a resident alien or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.
NLT During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
KJV Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
NKJV For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.

What does Exodus 12:19 mean?

Prior text (Exodus 12:15) explained how Israel was to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This included removing all leaven from their homes. Leaven is the yeast which makes bread rise. Symbolically, this implies a sincere effort to rid one's life of sin (1 Corinthians 5:6–8). It would also remind Israel of how God prepared them (Exodus 12:8) to leave Egyptian slavery on short notice (Exodus 12:33, 39).

When Israel is freed, some non-Israelites will come with them (Exodus 12:38). Some of these were probably Egyptians who recognized the power of the God of the Hebrews (Exodus 8:19; 10:7). This verse specifies that this rule applies to all people among the Israelites, whether they are natives of Israel, travelers, foreigners, or visitors. Those who defied the law were to be "cut off" and separated from the rest of the nation. To be "cut off" implied being shunned and excluded (Genesis 17:14); in some cases, it involved the death penalty (Leviticus 20:1–3).
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