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39 They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast. Because they were thrust out[a] of Egypt and were not able to delay, they[b] could not prepare[c] food for themselves either.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:39 sn For the use of this word in developing the motif, see Exod 2:17, 22; 6:1; and 11:1.
  2. Exodus 12:39 tn Heb “and also.”
  3. Exodus 12:39 tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (ʿasu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”