Discovery BoxExodus 12:34 
Context12:34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, 1 with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.
Exodus 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 2 of Egypt and were not able to delay, they 3 could not prepare 4 food for themselves either.
1 tn The imperfect tense after the adverb טֶרֶם (terem) is to be treated as a preterite: “before it was leavened,” or “before the yeast was added.” See GKC 314-15 §107.c.
2 sn For the use of this word in developing the motif, see Exod 2:17, 22; 6:1; and 11:1.
3 tn Heb “and also.”
4 tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (’asu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”
