John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:9
Eat not of it raw ,.... Not roasted enough; and so Jarchi says, that what is not sufficiently roasted, or is not thoroughly and down roasted, is in the Arabic language called נא F21 "cruda fuit caro", Golius, col. 2476. Semicocta, "cruda fuit caro", Castell. Lex. col. 2296. Vid. Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. p. 169, 170. , the word here used; and so Maimonides F23 Hilchot Korban Pesach. c. 8. sect. 6. says it signifies flesh, on which the fire begins to operate, and is roasted a... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:8
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire ,.... The night of the fourteenth of Nisan; and as the Jews reckoned their days from the evening preceding, this must be the beginning of the fifteenth day, which being observed, will serve to reconcile some passages relating to this ordinance. The lamb was to be roasted, not only because its flesh thereby would be more palatable and savoury, but because soonest dressed that way, their present circumstances requiring haste; but... read more