Discovery BoxExodus 12:39 
Context12:39 They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast – because they were thrust out 1 of Egypt and were not able to delay, they 2 could not prepare 3 food for themselves either.
Exodus 16:29
Context16:29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why 4 he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; 5 let no one 6 go out of his place on the seventh day.”
Exodus 16:32
Context16:32 Moses said, “This is what 7 the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it to be kept 8 for generations to come, 9 so that they may see 10 the food I fed you in the desert when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.’”
1 sn For the use of this word in developing the motif, see Exod 2:17, 22; 6:1; and 11:1.
2 tn Heb “and also.”
3 tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (’asu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”
4 sn Noting the rabbinic teaching that the giving of the Sabbath was a sign of God’s love – it was accomplished through the double portion on the sixth day – B. Jacob says, “God made no request unless He provided the means for its execution” (Exodus, 461).
5 tn Heb “remain, a man where he is.”
6 tn Or “Let not anyone go” (see GKC 445 §138.d).
7 tn Heb “This is the thing that.”
8 tn Heb “for keeping.”
9 tn Heb “according to your generations” (see Exod 12:14).
10 tn In this construction after the particle expressing purpose or result, the imperfect tense has the nuance of final imperfect, equal to a subjunctive in the classical languages.
