Exodus 12:8

12:8 They will eat the meat the same night; ¹  they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast ²  and with bitter herbs.

Exodus 28:42

28:42 Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; ³  they must cover ⁴  from the waist to the thighs.

Exodus 29:31

29:31 “You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook ⁵  its meat in a holy place. ⁶ 

[12:8]  ¹ tn Heb “this night.”

[12:8]  ² 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).

[28:42]  ³ tn Heb “naked flesh” (so NAB, NRSV); KJV “nakedness.”

[28:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “be.”

[29:31]  ⁵ tn Or “boil” (see Lev 8:31).

[29:31]  ⁶ sn The “holy place” must be in the courtyard of the sanctuary. Lev 8:31 says it is to be cooked at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Here it says it will be eaten there as well. This, then, becomes a communion sacrifice, a peace offering which was a shared meal. Eating a communal meal in a holy place was meant to signify that the worshipers and the priests were at peace with God.