Exodus 12:39 - Exposition

Unleavened cakes . Some of the modern Arabs make such cakes by simply mixing flour with water, and attaching flat circular pieces of the dough thus formed to the sides of their ovens after they have heated them. (Niebuhr, Description de l ' Arabie , ? 45, and pl. 1, F .) Others put a lump of dough into the ashes of a wood fire, and cover it over with the embers for a short time. All Arab bread is unleavened. They were thrust out of Egypt . Compare Exodus 12:33 .