John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 12:34

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, etc.] 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 f365 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, (<080315>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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