Exodus 12:18

12:18 In the first month, 1  from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

Exodus 13:7

13:7 Bread made without yeast must be eaten 2  for seven days; 3  no bread made with yeast shall be seen 4  among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.

Exodus 22:10

22:10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt 5  or is carried away 6  without anyone seeing it, 7 

Exodus 29:1

The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons

29:1 8 “Now this is what 9  you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young 10  bull and two rams without blemish; 11 

Exodus 29:23

29:23 and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.

1 tn “month” has been supplied.

2 tn The imperfect has the nuance of instruction or injunction again, but it could also be given an obligatory nuance.

3 tn The construction is an adverbial accusative of time, answering how long the routine should be followed (see GKC 374 §118.k).

4 tn Or “visible to you” (B. Jacob, Exodus, 366).

5 tn The form is a Niphal participle from the verb “to break” – “is broken,” which means harmed, maimed, or hurt in any way.

6 tn This verb is frequently used with the meaning “to take captive.” The idea here then is that raiders or robbers have carried off the animal.

7 tn Heb “there is no one seeing.”

8 sn Chap. 29 is a rather long, involved discussion of the consecration of Aaron the priest. It is similar to the ordination service in Lev 8. In fact, the execution of what is instructed here is narrated there. But these instructions must have been formulated after or in conjunction with Lev 1-7, for they presuppose a knowledge of the sacrifices. The bulk of the chapter is the consecration of the priests: 1-35. It has the preparation (1-3), washing (4), investiture and anointing (5-9), sin offering (10-14), burnt offering (15-18), installation peace offering (19-26, 31-34), other offerings’ rulings (27-30), and the duration of the ritual (35). Then there is the consecration of the altar (36-37), and the oblations (38-46). There are many possibilities for the study and exposition of this material. The whole chapter is the consecration of tabernacle, altar, people, and most of all the priests. God was beginning the holy operations with sacral ritual. So the overall message would be: Everyone who ministers, everyone who worships, and everything they use in the presence of Yahweh, must be set apart to God by the cleansing, enabling, and sanctifying work of God.

9 tn Heb “the thing.”

10 tn Literally: “take one bull, a ‘son’ of the herd.”

11 tn The word תָּמִים (tamim) means “perfect.” The animals could not have diseases or be crippled or blind (see Mal 1). The requirement was designed to ensure that the people would give the best they had to Yahweh. The typology pointed to the sinless Messiah who would fulfill all these sacrifices in his one sacrifice on the cross.