Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:6
Unleavened bread - See Clarke on Exodus 12:15 ; (note), and Exodus 12:16 ; (note). read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:9
And it shall be for a sign - upon thine hand - This direction, repeated and enlarged Exodus 13:16 , gave rise to phylacteries or tephillin, and this is one of the passages which the Jews write upon them to the present day. The manner in which the Jews understood and kept these commands may appear in their practice. They wrote the following four portions of the law upon slips of parchment or vellum: Sanctify unto me the first-born, Exodus 13, from Exodus 13:2-10 ; inclusive. And it shall... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:13
Every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb - Or a kid, as in the margin. In Numbers 18:15 , it is said: "The first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem; and the firstling of an unclean beast shalt thou redeem." Hence we may infer that ass is put here for any unclean beast, or for unclean beasts in general. The lamb was to be given to the Lord, that is, to his priest, Numbers 18:8 , Numbers 18:15 . And then the owner of the ass might use it for his own service, which... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:16
It shall be for a token, etc. - See Clarke's note on Exodus 13:9 . read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:17
God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, etc. - Had the Israelites been obliged to commence their journey to the promised land by a military campaign, there is little room to doubt that they would have been discouraged, have rebelled against Moses and Aaron, and have returned back to Egypt. Their long slavery had so degraded their minds that they were incapable of any great or noble exertions; and it is only on the ground of this mental degradation, the infallible... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:18
But God led the people about - Dr. Shaw has shown that there were two roads from Egypt to Canaan, one through the valleys of Jendilly, Rumeleah, and Baideah, bounded on each side by the mountains of the lower Thebais; the other lies higher, having the northern range of the mountains of Mocatee running parallel with it on the right hand, and the desert of the Egyptian Arabia, which lies all the way open to the land of the Philistines, to the left. See his account of these encampments at the... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:19
Moses took the bones of Joseph - See Clarke's note on Genesis 50:25 . It is supposed that the Israelites carried with them the bones or remains of all the twelve sons of Jacob, each tribe taking care of the bones of its own patriarch, while Moses took care of the bones of Joseph. St. Stephen expressly says, Acts 7:15 , Acts 7:16 , that not only Jacob, but the fathers were carried from Egypt into Sychem; and this, as Calmet remarks, was the only opportunity that seems to have presented... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:20
Encamped in Etham - As for the reasons assigned on Exodus 13:17 , God would not lead the Israelites by the way of the Philistines' country, he directed them towards the wilderness of Shur, Exodus 15:22 , upon the edge or extremity of which, next to Egypt, at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf, lay Etham, which is the second place of encampment mentioned. See the extracts from Dr. Shaw at the end of Exodus. See Clarke's note on Exodus 40:38 . read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:21
The Lord went before them - That by the Lord here is meant the Lord Jesus, we have the authority of St. Paul to believe, 1 Corinthians 10:9 ; : it was he whose Spirit they tempted in the wilderness, for it was he who led them through the desert to the promised rest. Pillar of a cloud - This pillar or column, which appeared as a cloud by day, and a fire by night, was the symbol of the Divine presence. This was the Shechinah or Divine dwelling place, and was the continual proof of the... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 13:5
When the Lord shall bring thee into the land - Hence it is pretty evident that the Israelites were not obliged to celebrate the Passover, or keep the feast of unleavened bread, till they were brought into the promised land. read more