Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 12:20
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
20. in all your habitations ] i.e. throughout the land generally. Another of P’s standing expressions: Exo 35:3, Lev 3:17; Lev 7:26; Lev 23:3; Lev 23:14; Lev 23:21; Lev 23:31, Num 35:29; cf. Eze 6:6; Eze 6:14.
21 27 (J). Moses gives the people directions for the observance of the Passover. As Di. has shewn, the passage cannot be the real sequel to vv. 1 13. Moses does not here repeat to the elders, even in an abridged form, the injunctions before received by him; but while, with the one exception of the application of the blood to the lintel and side posts of the door, nearly all of the many particulars laid down in vv. 1 13 are omitted, fresh points (the hyssop, the basin, none to leave the house till the morning), not mentioned before, are added. The inference is irresistible that Exo 12:21-23 is really part of a different account (i.e. J’s) of the institution of the Passover, which ‘stands to Exo 12:3-13 in the same relation in which the regulations respecting Maoth in Exo Exo 13:3-10 stand to those in Exo 12:14-20 ’ (Di. p. 100; ed. 2, p. 111).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ye shall eat nothing leavened,…. 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 p: 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 q the Roman historian, who represents unleavened bread as the bread the Jews eat of in common.
p See Leo Modena’s History of the Rites, &c. of the Jews, par. 3. c. 3. sect. 5. q Hist. l. 5. c. 4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Here the service begins for which so solemn a preparation had been made. And the Holy Ghost, to teach us the importance of it, gives it to the church again by his servant the apostle Heb 9:19 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Ver. 20. Ye shall eat nothing leavened. ] Watch carefully against corruption in life and doctrine: be punctual in your preparation to and participation of the Christian passover.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
shall ye eat (repeated). Figure of speech Pleonasm (App-6).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Reciprocal: Exo 12:15 – that soul Exo 34:25 – leaven Lev 2:11 – no leaven Deu 16:3 – eat no