John Gill Commentary Exodus 12:20

"Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread." — Exodus 12:20 (ASV)

You shall eat nothing leavened Bread or anything else that had any leaven in it: in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread, that is, if they eat any bread at all, it must be such; otherwise they might eat cakes of almonds or of eggs mixed with sugar, provided there was no leaven used, and this the Jews call the rich unleavened bread^F16: this is repeated over and over, that they might be the more careful of observing this precept; but as this was limited for a certain time, it plainly appears to be a mistake of Tacitus^F17 the Roman historian, who represents unleavened bread as the bread the Jews eat of in common.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: See Leo Modena's History of the Rites of the Jews, par. 3. c. 3. sect. 5.
• F17: Hist. l. 5. c. 4.