They baked the dough that they took out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for they could not be leavened, for they were thrust out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they made provisions for themselves. (Exodus 12:39)

What is going on? Had not G-D already told the Bnei Yisrael prior to the Exodus that only matsa may be eaten to the exclusion of leaven (12:15)?  And if they had really been “thrust out of Egypt” would they not have left immediately after midnight when Pharaoh runs like a madman to Moses and screams out Get up and get out, the lot of you! (12:30)? Yet we know that the Bnei Yisrael weren’t allowed, by G-D’s command, to leave their homes until morning (12:22). Nor did they. “The Bnei Yisrael went out with a high hand in the sight of all Egypt” (Num 33:3).  They didn’t slink out of Egypt like thieves in the night but left openly at the break of day, having requested and received full compensation in silver and gold currency (Ex.12:35)........

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