Exodus 12:34

The people therefore took dough before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

In Context

33And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.

35And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment.

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Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:30-37

The Death of the Firstborn. ( b. c. 1491.) 29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,… Read the whole commentary →

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