Exodus 12:33

12:33 The Egyptians were urging ¹  the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, ²  for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

Exodus 12:39

12:39 They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast – because they were thrust out ³  of Egypt and were not able to delay, they ⁴  could not prepare ⁵  food for themselves either.

¹ tn The verb used here (חָזַק, khazaq) is the same verb used for Pharaoh’s heart being hardened. It conveys the idea of their being resolved or insistent in this – they were not going to change.

² tn The phrase uses two construct infinitives in a hendiadys, the first infinitive becoming the modifier.

³ sn For the use of this word in developing the motif, see Exod 2:17, 22; 6:1; and 11:1.

⁴ tn Heb “and also.”

⁵ tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (’asu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”