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John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 12:20

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Ye shall eat nothing leavened, etc.] Bread or anything else that had any leaven in it: in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread, that is, if they eat any bread at all, it must be such; otherwise they might eat cakes of almonds or of eggs mixed with sugar, provided there was no leaven used, and this the Jews call the rich unleavened bread f357: this is repeated over and over, that they might be the more careful of observing this precept; but as this was limited for a certain time, it plainly appears to be a mistake of Tacitus f358 the Roman historian, who represents unleavened bread as the bread the Jews eat of in common.
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