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Deuteronomy 16:3

You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction: for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Affliction. Hebrew also, "of poverty. "Syriac, "of humility. "Septuagint, "of evil treatment "or such bread as the poorest sort of people and slaves are forced to eat. The Jews serve the bread in small pieces, to denote their former poverty. This unleavened bread is also less palatable, and less wholesome. Fear. Septuagint, "in haste "Exodus xii. 11. The psalmist (Psalm civ. 43,) mentions, the exultation and joy of the Hebrews, but it was mixed with fear, lest they should lose so great a benefit.

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