Éxodo 12:34

34 Tomó, pues, el pueblo la masa, antes que fuera leudada, en sus artesas de amasar envueltas en paños, y se las llevaron sobre sus hombros.

Éxodo 12:34 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:34

And the people took their dough before it was leavened
They had that evening mixed their flour with water, and made it into dough, but had put no leaven into it; and the Egyptians being so very earnest to have them gone, they stayed not to put any leaven into it:

[but] their kneadingtroughs,
or rather "their dough",

being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders;
for it is not likely that their troughs should be wrapped up in the skirts of their garments; but their dough might, if their clothes were like the hykes of the Arabs now, as Dr. Shaw ^F26 thinks they were, and which are pretty much like the plaids of the Scotch, and which are large enough for such a purpose; as even the veil which Ruth wore held six measures of barley, ( Ruth 3:15 ) and so these clothes of theirs, like the Arabs' hykes, and the Scotch plaids, might be so made, that large lumps of dough being bound up in them might be thrown over their shoulders, and so carried by them when they journeyed.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Travels, p. 224, 225. Edit. 2.

Éxodo 12:34 In-Context

32 Tomad también vuestras ovejas y vuestras vacadas, como habéis dicho, e idos, y bendecidme también a mí.

33 Y los egipcios apremiaban al pueblo, dándose prisa en echarlos de la tierra, porque decían: Todos seremos muertos.

34 Tomó, pues, el pueblo la masa, antes que fuera leudada, en sus artesas de amasar envueltas en paños, y se las llevaron sobre sus hombros.

35 Los hijos de Israel hicieron según las instrucciones de Moisés, pues pidieron a los egipcios objetos de plata, objetos de oro y ropa.

36 Y el SEÑOR hizo que el pueblo se ganara el favor de los egipcios, que les concedieron lo que pedían. Así despojaron a los egipcios.