32. Also take your flocks, and your herds, as ye have faid; and be gone: and bless me alfe. 33. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might fend them out of the land in hafte : for they faid, We be all dead men. 34. And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up their fhoulders. in 34 Kneadingtroughs: Or, Dough. their clothes upon 35. Jewels: Ch.3. 22, and 11. 2. 35. And the children of Ifrael 36. And the LORD gave the people favour in the 37. And the children of Ifrael journeyed from Ramefes to Succoth, about fix hundred thousand on foot that were men, befides children. 37. To fuccath: Vid. Numb. 33. 3. This Journey the f raelites took the day after the Paffover was flain. This place might be called Succoth from the Booths 38. And a mixed multitude went up also with them ; 39. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough, which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened: because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. 40. Now the fojourning of the 2513 children of Ifrael, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thir. 1491. ty years. 40, Now the for journing, &c. Gen. 15. 13. Act. 7.6. Gal, 3. 17. Their fojourning in Egypt was not C t above half this time; And therefore this fpace of time takes in the fojourning of them and their Fathers, not onely in E gypt, but elfewhere. [See the Greek.] From the Birth of Ifaac to this time are 400 years; The other 30 years were before the Birth of Ifaac, and commence from the first promife made to Abram in Ur of the Chaldees, Act.7. 2, 3. Now the 30 years are thus made up; 5 years in Haran, 11 in Canaan, when Ifhmael was born, Gen. 16. 3. And 14 years of Ishmael's Age when Ifaac was born, Gen. 17.25. 18. 10. 16. 16. 21.5. See the Notes on Gen. 15. 13. 41. And it came to pass, at the end of the four hun dred and thirty years, even the self-fame day it came to pals, that all the hofts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42. It is a night to be much obJerved unto the LORD, for bring ing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be obferved of all the children of Ifrael, in their generations. 43. And the LORD faid unto Mofes and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the paffover: there fhall no stranger eat thereof. 42. A night much to be obferved: Heb. A night of Obfervations. 43. No Stranger: None that is not a Jew born, or that is not of that Religion by his being profe lyted, and admitted by Circumcifion: Vid. Verf. 44, 45 44. But every man's fervant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcifed him, then shall be eat there of. 45. A foreigner, and an hired fervant shall not eat thereof. 46. In one boufe fhall it be eaten, thou shalt not carry forthought of the fefb abroad out of the house: nei ther fhall ye break a bone thereof. 46. Neither fhall ge break: Numb. 9. 12. Joh, 19. 36. 47. All 47. All the congregation of Ifrael shall keep it. 47. Keep it: Heb. Do it. 48. And when a ftranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the paffover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcifed, and then let him come near and keep it; and be fhall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcifed perfon fhall eat thereof. 49. One law fhall be to him that is home-born, and unto the ftranger that fojourneth among you. Stranger, &c. i.e. The Profelyte. See the Greek. 50. Thus did all the children of Ifrael; as the LORD commanded Mofes and Aaron, fo did they. 51. And it came to pass the felf-fame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Ifrael out of the land of Egypt, by their armies. CHA P. XIII. The ARGUMENT. The First-born are to be fet afide. The Ifraelites are minded to preferve the Memory of their deliverance out of Egypt. The Firstlings of Beafts to be fet apart. The Ifraelites take with them the Bones of Jofeph. They are directed by a Cloud and Pillar of Fire. to God, which is fet afide for his fervice, (v. 12.) And because the First-born were fet afide by God's Command, and were therefore more peculiarly his already, they were forbid in their voluntary Vows to confecrate them unto the Lord, Levit. 27.26. Of Of man and of beaft: The Firstling of a Beast fit for Sacrifice was not to be redeemed, but the. Blood thereof was to be fprinkled on the Altar, the fat to be burnt, and the flesh to be the Priefts, Numb. 18. 17, 18. The Firstling of an unclean Beast was to be redeemed, (v. 13.) and the Price to be given to the Prieft, Numb 18.15. The First-born of Men were to be fet a-part to the Service of God; Instead of the First-born of the People, God took the Levites, Numb. 3. 12. After this the Firstborn were to be redeemed, and the Price to be given to the Prieft, Numb. 18. 15. 3. And Mofes faid unto the peo- 3. Bondage: Heb. ple, Remember this day, in which Servants. ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by ftrength, of hand the LORD brought you out from. this place: there fhall no leavened bread be eaten. 4. This day came ye out, in the month Abib. 4. In the month Abib: The Hebrew word Abib fignifies an-Ear of Corn; and because Barley was Eared at this time of the year, this month is called the month of Abib: The Latin renders it of new fruits, and the Greek to the fame sense. 5. And it shall be when the LORD fhall bring thee into the Land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he fware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and boney, that thou shalt keep this fervice in this month. 5. When,&c. Hence it appears that this Service was, after this firft Paffeover in Egypt, determined to the Land of Canaan, vid. Deut. 12. 1, 6. ch.16. 5, 6, 6. Seven days fhalt thou eat unleavened bread, and in the feventh day fhall be a feaft to the LORD. 6. Seven days fhalt thou eat unleavened bread: It is elfewhere faid, Six days fhalt thon eat unleavened bread, Deut. 16. 8. But it is plain these fix, are the fix days after the first day of the Feaft; after which first day they had the liberty of going home, but might not eat leavened Bread during thofe remaining fix days. And to this purpose it is faid; Thou shalt facrifice the Paffover; (v.6.) And thou shalt roft and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God fhall choose, and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. Upon this it follows, Six days fhalt thou eat. It is a very probable opinion of the Jews, that though they were obliged to eat unleavened Bread with the Pafchal Lamb, (Exod. 12. 8.) Yet for the fix days remaining they were onely obliged, if they eat Bread, that it fhould be unleavened, but were not under any obligation to eat Bread upon each of those days. It is not faid, Whosoever eateth not unleavened Bread; but it is faid, Whofoever eateth leavened Bread, from the first day untill the feventh day, that foul shall be cut off from Ifrael, Exod. 12. 15. 7. Unleavened bread fhall be eaten feven days: and there fhall no leavened bread be feen with thee, neither fhall there be leaven feen with thee in all thy quarters. 8. And thou shalt fhew thy fon in that day, faying, This is done because of that which the LORD did ལསམས་ unto me, when I came forth out of Egypt. 9: And it fhall be for a fign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a mémorial between thine eyes that 9. And it shall be for a fign unto thee upon thine hand, &c. the LORD's law may be in thye. This Solemnity mouth for with a strong band hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. fhall be unto thee a God hath done for Memorial of what thee, as if it were fomething on thine hand, or before thine eyes: Vid. Dent. 6.8. Ifa. 49.16. Cant. 8.6. See Notes on v. 16. io. Thou |