Exodus 12:34 - Exposition

The people took their dough . They probably regarded dough as more convenient for a journey than flour, and so made their flour into dough before starting; but they had no time to add leaven. Their kneading-troughs . This rendering is correct, both here and in the two other places where the word occurs ( Exodus 8:3 , and Deuteronomy 28:5 ). Kneading-troughs would be a necessity in the desert, and, if like those of the modern Arabs, which are merely small wooden bowls, would be light and portable. The dough and kneading-troughs, with perhaps other necessaries, were carried, as the Arabs still carry many small objects, bound up in their clothes ( i.e; in the beged or ample shawl) upon their shoulders.