Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 9:3

3 In the fourteenth day of this month at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it.

So far as concerned the Lamb and the unleavened bread, &c. for there were some things peculiar to the first Passe-over in Egypt, as that they were to eat it in [illegible: 1 word], with their loins grided, their shoes on their feet, and their staffe in their hand, which were not properly Rites or Ceremonies of the Passe-over, but circumstances of their present condition, being then Travellers and ready to depart, &c, Qu. Whence had they meal to make unleavened bread? Answ. They were not now in haste, and so had time enough to procure it out of the land of Midian by the help of Moses his Father-in-law who lived there, which land was not far from Hor[illegible: 1+ letters]b or Sinai, as appears from Exod. 3. 1.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] the two [illegible: 1+ letters] ings.