“Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.”
Exodus 12:39
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Connection with Lot's hesitation
Could not delay here is the same Hebrew verb, in the same doubled form, that describes Lot's hesitation as Sodom fell (Genesis 19:16). Lot lingered on his night of leaving; on Israel's night of leaving they had no time to.
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Israel was driven out of Egypt so fast that they had no food prepared. The Hebrew verb for driven out, garash, is the one Sarah used when she told Abraham to send Hagar and her son away (Genesis 21:10). Israel heard Hagar's story as people who had been driven out themselves.
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