Exodus 12:34 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:34

Exodus 12:34. The people took their dough Perhaps the Hebrew word here used had better be rendered flour, as it is 2 Samuel 13:8; for if they had time to make it into paste, it seems they would also have had time to leaven it. Their kneading-troughs The word thus rendered is translated store, Deuteronomy 28:5; Deuteronomy 28:17. And as kneading-troughs are not things which travellers are wont to carry with them, it seems more natural to understand it of their flour, grain, or dough. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

The Passover (12:1-36)Until now the Israelites had escaped the judgment of the plagues without having to do anything, but now their safety depended on their carrying out God’s commands. Redemption involves faith and obedience.Each family would be delivered from judgment only by killing a sacrificial animal as substitute for it, and sprinkling the animal’s blood on the door of the house where the family lived. The sprinkled blood indicated to those outside that a substitutionary sacrifice had... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:31-36

"And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said, Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men. And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:34

Exodus 12:34. The people took their dough before it was leavened— Or, more properly, not yet leavened, or which had not yet been leavened; i.e. their dough unleavened, according to the immediate order of God; the vessels in which they were used to knead their dough being hastily bound up in their garments, and cast over their shoulders. The word which we render dough, בצק batzek, according to Parkhurst, means meal moistened with water; paste, or dough unleavened. This dough, we are told, was... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:34

34. people took . . . their kneading-troughs—Having lived so long in Egypt, they must have been in the habit of using the utensils common in that country. The Egyptian kneading-trough was a bowl of wicker or rush work, and it admitted of being hastily wrapped up with the dough in it and slung over the shoulder in their hykes or loose upper garments. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:29-36

2. The death of the first-born and the release of Israel 12:29-36The angel struck the Egyptians at midnight, the symbolic hour of judgment (Exodus 12:29; cf. Matthew 25:5-6), when they were asleep ". . . to startle the king and his subjects out of their sleep of sin." [Note: Keil and Delitzsch, 2:23.] Pharaoh had originally met Moses’ demands with contemptuous insult (Exodus 5:4). Then he tried a series of compromises (Exodus 8:25; Exodus 8:28; Exodus 10:8-11; Exodus 10:24). All of these... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-51

The Institution of the Passover. The Tenth Plague, and the Departure of Israel1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative, and an examination of this chapter shows that it contains two separate accounts of the institution of the Passover, one extending from Exodus 12:1-20, the other from Exodus 12:21-28. The latter is the proper continuation of Exodus 11.2. The beginning of months] The exodus is regarded as an... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 12:34

(34) Kneadingtroughs.—Light, portable wooden bowls, such as are now used by the Arabs. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 12:1-51

Exodus 12:8 Christianity, considered as a moral system, is made up of two elements, beauty and severity; whenever either is indulged to the loss or disparagement of the other, evil ensues.... Even the Jews, to whom this earth was especially given, and who might be supposed to be at liberty without offence to satiate themselves in its gifts, were not allowed to enjoy it without restraint. Even the Paschal Lamb, their great typical feast, was eaten 'with bitter herbs'. Newman, Sermons on... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:29-36

THE TENTH PLAGUE.Exodus 12:29-36.And now the blow fell. Infants grew cold in their mothers’ arms; ripe statesmen and crafty priests lost breath as they reposed: the wisest, the strongest and the most hopeful of the nation were blotted out at once, for the firstborn of a population is its flower.Pharaoh Menephtah had only reached the throne by the death of two elder brethren, and therefore history confirms the assertion that he "rose up," when the firstborn were dead; but it also justifies the... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:34

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:31-36

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:34

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:34

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:29-36

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-51

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 12:34

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 12:1-51

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:29-36

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