Exodus 12:34

12:34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, ¹  with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.

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 ²  of Egypt and were not able to delay, they ³  could not prepare ⁴  food for themselves either.

¹ tn The imperfect tense after the adverb טֶרֶם (terem) is to be treated as a preterite: “before it was leavened,” or “before the yeast was added.” See GKC 314-15 §107.c.

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

³ tn Heb “and also.”

⁴ tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (’asu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”