Exodus 14

Exodus 14:2

Raw - Half roasted, but throughly drest.

Exodus 14:3

Ye shall burn with fire - To prevent the profane abuse of it.

Exodus 14:4

The Lord’s passover - A sign of his passing over you, when he destroyed the Egyptians.

Exodus 14:9

An holy convocation - A solemn day for the people to assemble together.

Exodus 14:12

A stranger - A proselyte. Heathens were not concerned in the passover.

Exodus 14:15

Out of the door of his house - Of that house, wherein he ate the passover: Until the morning - That is, till towards morning, when they would be called for to march out of Egypt. They went out very early in the morning.

Exodus 14:16

The destroyer - The destroying angel, whether this was a good or an evil angel, we have not light to determine.

Exodus 14:20

The people bowed the head and worshipped - They hereby signified their submission to this institution as a law, and their thankfulness for it as a favour and privilege.

Exodus 14:24

Rise up, and get you forth - Pharaoh had told Moses he should see his face no more, but now he sent for him; those will seek God in their distress, who before had set him at defiance. Such a fright he was now in that he gave orders by night for their discharge, fearing lest if he delay’d, he himself should fall next. And that he sent them out, not as men hated (as the Pagan historians have represented this matter) but as men feared, is plain by his request to them.

Exodus 14:25

Bless me also - Let me have your prayers, that I may not be plagued for what is past when you are gone.

Exodus 14:26

We be all dead men - When death comes unto our houses, it is seasonable for us to think of our own mortality.

Exodus 14:27

Their kneading - troughs - Or rather, their lumps of paste unleavened.

Exodus 14:30

About six hundred thousand men - The word means strong and able men fit for wars, beside women and children, which we cannot suppose to make less than twelve hundred thousand more. What a vast increase was this to arise from seventy souls, in little more than two hundred years.

Exodus 14:31

And a mixed multitude went up with them - Some perhaps willing to leave their country, because it was laid waste by the plagues. But probably the greatest part was but a rude unthinking mob, that followed they knew not why: It is likely, when they understood that the children of Israel were to continue forty years in the wilderness, they quitted them, and returned to Egypt again. And flocks and herds, even very much cattle - This is taken notice of, because it was long ere Pharaoh would give them leave to remove their effects, which were chiefly cattle.