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Later text
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
Earlier text
Exodus 12:11BSB
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.
Isaiah 52:11-12 commands "Depart, depart, go out from there!" (סוּרוּ סוּרוּ צְאוּ מִשָּׁם, suru suru tse'u misham), echoing the original departure from Egypt in Exodus 12:11. However, Isaiah 52:12 marks a crucial contrast with the first exodus: "you will not leave in a hurry (בְּחִפָּזוֹן, bechippazon) nor flee in haste" — the exact opposite of Exodus 12:11 where Israel ate the Passover "in haste" (בְּחִפָּזוֹן, bechippazon). The same Hebrew word is deliberately reversed: the first exodus was a panicked flight; the new exodus will be a dignified procession with "the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard" (52:12).