John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning." — Exodus 23:18 (ASV)
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread
This belongs to the feast of the passover; for, as all the Jewish writers agree, this sacrifice is the sacrifice of the passover, as it is sometimes called, see (Exodus 12:27) now when the paschal lamb was killed, and its blood shed, and its flesh eaten, there was to be no leaven along with it; it was to be eaten with unleavened bread, and there was to be no leaven in their houses at this time; nay, it was not to be slain until all was removed: this was the first thing the Jews did, as soon as the fourteenth day was come, to search for leaven, remove and burn it; and this sense of the law is confirmed by the Targum of Jonathan, which is, ``not a man shall slay, while there is leaven in your houses, the sacrifice of my passover;'' and to the same purpose is the note of Jarchi:
neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning ;
and indeed no part of the passover lamb was to remain until the morning, what did was to be burnt with fire, (Exodus 12:10) the Targum of Jonathan is, ``neither shall there remain without the altar the fat of the sacrifice of my passover until the morning, nor of the flesh which you ate in the evening;'' and so Jarchi interprets it of its not remaining without the altar.