[Avodah] What really happened just before leaving Egypt?

[Zev Sero]

Even stronger question.  We left Egypt at high noon.  Had everyone 
really been up all night, sitting at the ready since midnight, and davka 
at 11:50 AM they suddenly decided to start baking?!   What did they do 
for 12 hours?  And when Moshe told Par'oh shortly after midnight that 
we'll leave when we're good and ready, not when you tell us to, did he 
not know when that would be?  Couldn't he have passed the word that 
people could relax, get some sleep, go to the toilet, but be ready to 
leave at the stroke of noon?


-- 
Zev Sero            “Were we directed from Washington when to sow
zev at sero.name       and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
		    –Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.