Ex 13:3-10. MEMORIAL OF THE PASSOVER.
3. Moses said unto the people, Remember this day--The day that
gave them a national existence and introduced them into the privileges
of independence and freedom, deserved to live in the memories of the
Hebrews and their posterity; and, considering the signal interposition
of God displayed in it, to be held not only in perpetual, but devout
remembrance.
house of bondage--literally, "house of slaves"--that is, a
servile and degrading condition.
for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this
place--The emancipation of Israel would never have been obtained
except it had been wrung from the Egyptian tyrant by the appalling
judgments of God, as had been at the outset of his mission announced to
Moses
(Ex 3:19).
There shall no leavened bread, &c.--The words are elliptical,
and the meaning of the clause may be paraphrased thus:--"For by
strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place, in such
haste that there could or should be no leavened bread eaten."
JFB.
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