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Ramban on Exodus 12:39/רמב"ן על שמות י״ב:ל״ט
אוְטַעַם וַיֹּאפוּ אֶת הַבָּצֵק שֶׁאָפוּ אוֹתוֹ מַצּוֹת מִפְּנֵי הַמִּצְוָה שֶׁנִּצְטַוּוּ "שְׂאֹר לֹא יִמָּצֵא בְּבָתֵּיכֶם כִּי כָּל אֹכֵל מַחְמֶצֶת וְנִכְרְתָה".
1AND THEY BAKED UNLEAVENED CAKES OF THE DOUGH. The meaning thereof is that they baked unleavened bread of the dough because of the precept which they were commanded: There shall be no leaven found in your homes, for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel.295
בוְאָמַר כִּי גֹרְשׁוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם, לוֹמַר שֶׁאָפוּ אוֹתוֹ בַּדֶּרֶךְ בַּעֲבוּר כִּי גֹרְשׁוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם וְלֹא יָכְלוּ לְהִתְמַהְמֵהַּ לֶאֱפוֹת אוֹתוֹ בָּעִיר וְלָשֵׂאת אוֹתוֹ אָפוּי מַצּוֹת, וְעַל כֵּן נָשְׂאוּ אוֹתוֹ בָּצֵק וּמִשְׁאֲרֹתָם צְרֻרֹת בְּשִׂמְלֹתָם עַל שִׁכְמָם, וּמִהֲרוּ וְאָפוּ אוֹתוֹ טֶרֶם יֶחְמָץ בַּדֶּרֶךְ אוֹ בְּסֻכּוֹת, כְּשֶׁבָּאוּ שָׁם לְשָׁעָה קַלָּה כְּדִבְרֵי רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (מכילתא כאן):
2BECAUSE THEY WERE THRUST OUT OF EGYPT. The sense of it is that they baked the dough on the road because they had been driven out of Egypt, and could not wait to bake it in the city and carry the unleavened bread. Therefore they carried the dough, and their kneading-troughs were bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders,296 and they hurried and baked it before it was leavened296 on the road, or in Succoth,297 where they arrived in a short while as our Rabbis have said.298