514 B
514 B
unleavened bread
Leaven is something that is mixed into bread dough that makes the dough expand and it also makes the bread rise as it bakes. This could be translated as, “made without something that would make it rise.” Making the bread with leaven would have taken much longer, so cooking the bread without leaven was a way to be prepared to leave Egypt quickly.
be ready to leave Egypt immediately after they ate this meal
This means they needed to be prepared to leave before they started to eat.