Exodus 12:7

12:7 They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

Exodus 12:9

12:9 Do not eat it raw¹ or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

Exodus 13:6

13:6 For seven days² you must eat³ bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be⁴ a festival to the Lord.

Exodus 16:21

16:21 So they gathered it each morning,⁵ each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.⁶

Exodus 16:25

16:25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area.⁷

Exodus 22:31

22:31 “You will be holy⁸ people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field.⁹ You must throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 29:32

29:32 Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

¹sn This ruling was to prevent their eating it just softened by the fire or partially roasted as differing customs might prescribe or allow.

²tn Heb “Seven days.”

³tn The imperfect tense functions with the nuance of instruction or injunction. It could also be given an obligatory nuance: “you must eat” or “you are to eat.” Some versions have simply made it an imperative.

⁴tn The phrase “there is to be” has been supplied.

⁵tn Heb “morning by morning.” This is an example of the repetition of words to express the distributive sense; here the meaning is “every morning” (see GKC 388 §121.c).

⁶tn The perfect tenses here with vav (ו) consecutives have the frequentative sense; they function in a protasis-apodosis relationship (GKC 494 §159.g).

⁷tn Heb “in the field” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); NAB, NIV, NLT “on the ground.”

⁸sn The use of this word here has to do with the laws of the sanctuary and not some advanced view of holiness. The ritual holiness at the sanctuary would prohibit eating anything torn to pieces.

⁹tn Or “by wild animals.”