See introd. note.

bread of affliction The affliction of Israel in Egypt, Exodus 3:7; Exodus 4:31, culminating in the hasteor trepidation (Driver) with which they ate their last meal there. So P, Exodus 12:11; cp. for the meaning of the word, Deu 20:3; 1 Samuel 23:26; Isaiah 52:12.

no leaven … neither shall any of the flesh … remain The two prohibitions are connected because anything fermenting or putrefying was not admissible in sacrifice (W. R. Smith, Rel. Sem. 221 n.). Cp. P, Exodus 12:19.

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