Keluaran 12:8

12:8 They will eat the meat the same night; ¹  they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast ²  and with bitter herbs.

Keluaran 13:7

13:7 Bread made without yeast must be eaten ³  for seven days; ⁴  no bread made with yeast shall be seen ⁵  among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.

¹ tn Heb “this night.”

² sn Bread made without yeast could be baked quickly, not requiring time for the use of a leavening ingredient to make the dough rise. In Deut 16:3 the unleavened cakes are called “the bread of affliction,” which alludes to the alarm and haste of the Israelites. In later Judaism and in the writings of Paul, leaven came to be a symbol of evil or corruption, and so “unleavened bread” – bread made without yeast – was interpreted to be a picture of purity or freedom from corruption or defilement (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 90-91).

³ tn The imperfect has the nuance of instruction or injunction again, but it could also be given an obligatory nuance.

⁴ tn The construction is an adverbial accusative of time, answering how long the routine should be followed (see GKC 374 §118.k).

⁵ tn Or “visible to you” (B. Jacob, Exodus, 366).