Exodus 12:34

34 So the people filled their baking pans with unleavened dough, wrapped them in clothing, and carried them on their shoulders.

Exodus 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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Exodus 12:34 In-Context

32 Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."
33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."
34 So the people filled their baking pans with unleavened dough, wrapped them in clothing, and carried them on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites had done as Moses had said, and had asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes.
36 The Lord made the Egyptians respect the people and give them what they asked for. In this way the Israelites carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.