Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.
God claims the firstborn by right of protection, as He claimed them when He spared them in Egypt. We must present what is dearest to us to Him first, and receive it back only by His mercy; the firstborn are the joy of families, yet they belong to God before they belong to us. By this dedication we show that we love Him better than we love ourselves.
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Commenting on Exodus 13:1-10
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days,.... From the evening of the fourteenth day, to the evening of the twenty first, Exo 12:18, this is very express as before, that not only they were to abstain from leaven, but that they were obliged to eat unleavened bread; and as for the cakes of eggs and sugar the Jews now use, these, as Leo Modeua says...
That day gave Israel a national existence and freedom worth remembering with devout gratitude forever. God wrung their liberty from Egypt's tyrant by fearful judgment; it was never merely granted, but taken by His strength of hand. The haste of their deliverance left no time for leavened bread.
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Commenting on Exodus 13:3-10