Éxodo 12:34

34 Entonces los israelitas tomaron las artesas de masa todavía sin leudar y, luego de envolverlas en sus ropas, se las echaron al hombro.

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 Llévense también sus rebaños y sus ganados, como lo han pedido, ¡pero váyanse ya, que para mí será una bendición!»

33 El pueblo egipcio, por su parte, instaba a los israelitas a que abandonaran pronto el país. «De lo contrario —decían—, ¡podemos darnos por muertos!»

34 Entonces los israelitas tomaron las artesas de masa todavía sin leudar y, luego de envolverlas en sus ropas, se las echaron al hombro.

35 Después, siguiendo las instrucciones que Moisés les había dado, pidieron a los egipcios que les dieran objetos de oro y de plata, y también ropa.

36 El SEÑOR hizo que los egipcios vieran con buenos ojos a los israelitas, así que les dieron todo lo que les pedían. De este modo los israelitas despojaron por completo a los egipcios.