English Standard Version
Exodus 12:34
34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
Exodus 12:34 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
- New International Version (NIV)So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The Israelites took their bread dough before yeast was added. They wrapped their kneading boards in their cloaks and carried them on their shoulders.
Context of Exodus 12:34
32Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!" 33The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, "We shall all be dead." So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Read all of Exodus 12Exodus 12:34 word by word
וַיִּשָּׂ֥א הָעָ֛ם אֶת־בְּצֵק֖וֹ טֶ֣רֶם יֶחְמָ֑ץ מִשְׁאֲרֹתָ֛ם צְרֻרֹ֥ת בְּשִׂמְלֹתָ֖ם עַל־שִׁכְמָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- tookנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: raiseH5375
- their doughבָּצֵקbâtsêq · doughH1217
- before it was leavenedחָמֵץchâmêts · be sourH2556
- their kneadingtroughsמִשְׁאֶ֫רֶתmish'ereth · kneadingH4863
- being bound upצָרַרtsârar · to constrainH6887
- in their clothesשִׂמְלָהώimlâh · mantleH8071
- upon their shouldersשְׁכֶםshekem · shoulderH7926
Cross-references for Exodus 12:34
Commentaries on Exodus 12:34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 34The people took their dough before it was leavened, etc. - There was no time now to make any regular preparation for their departure, such was the universal hurry and confusion. The Israelites could carry but little of their household utensils with them; but some, such as they kneaded their bread and kept their meal in, they were obliged to carry with them. The kneading troughs of the Arabs are comparatively small wooden bowls, which, after kneading their…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 34Kneadingtroughs - (Compare the margin and Deuteronomy 28:5). The troughs were probably small wooden bowls in which the cakes when baked were preserved for use. The Hebrews used their outer garment, or mantle, in the same way as the Bedouins at present, who make a bag of the voluminous folds of their burnous. See Rth 3:15 ; 2 Kings 4:39.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29-36Verses 29-36 The Egyptians had been for three days and nights kept in anxiety and horror by the darkness; now their rest is broken by a far more terrible calamity. The plague struck their first-born, the joy and hope of their families. They had slain the Hebrews' children, now God slew theirs. It reached from the throne to the dungeon: prince and peasant stand upon the same level before God's judgments. The destroying angel entered every dwelling unmarked…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31-42The Lord delivered on his promises and rescued Israel, bringing them out of Egypt.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3434. people took ... their kneading-troughs--Having lived so long in Egypt, they must have been in the habit of using the utensils common in that country. The Egyptian kneading-trough was a bowl of wicker or rush work, and it admitted of being hastily wrapped up with the dough in it and slung over the shoulder in their hykes or loose upper garments.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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