Exodus 11:4

11:4 Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight ¹  I will go throughout Egypt, ² 

Exodus 12:8

12:8 They will eat the meat the same night; ³  they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast ⁴  and with bitter herbs.

Exodus 13:22

13:22 He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people. ⁵ 

[11:4]  ¹ tn Heb “about the middle of the night.”

[11:4]  ² tn Heb “I will go out in the midst of Egypt.”

[12:8]  ³ tn Heb “this night.”

[12:8]  ⁴ sn Bread made without yeast could be baked quickly, not requiring time for the use of a leavening ingredient to make the dough rise. In Deut 16:3 the unleavened cakes are called “the bread of affliction,” which alludes to the alarm and haste of the Israelites. In later Judaism and in the writings of Paul, leaven came to be a symbol of evil or corruption, and so “unleavened bread” – bread made without yeast – was interpreted to be a picture of purity or freedom from corruption or defilement (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 90-91).

[13:22]  ⁵ sn See T. W. Mann, “The Pillar of Cloud in the Reed Sea Narrative,” JBL 90 (1971): 15-30.