Discovery BoxExodus 12:17 
Context12:17 So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very 1 day I brought your regiments 2 out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance. 3
Exodus 12:51
Context12:51 And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.
1 tn Heb “on the bone of this day.” The expression means “the substance of the day,” the day itself, the very day (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 95).
2 tn The word is “armies” or “divisions” (see Exod 6:26 and the note there; cf. also 7:4). The narrative will continue to portray Israel as a mighty army, marching forth in its divisions.
3 tn See Exod 12:14.
