interpreted the account of unleavened cakes of dough in to teach that the Israelites had kneaded the dough but did not have sufficient time to let it leaven before they were redeemed. A Baraita taught that King Ptolemy brought together 72 elders and placed them in 72 separate rooms, without telling them why he had brought them together, and asked each of them to translate the Torah. God then prompted each of the elders to conceive the same idea and not to follow the Masoretic Text in their translation in a number of cases, including , "And the abode of the children of Israel which they stayed in Egypt and in other lands was 400 years." The translation of the 72 elders inserted the words "and in other lands," because, according to the Biblical record, the Israelites were in Egypt at most 210 years. A Baraita taught that when Moses broke the stone tablets in , it was one of three actions that Moses took based on his own understanding with which God then agreed. The Gemara explained that Moses reasoned that if the Passover lamb, which was just one of the 613 commandments, was prohibited by to aliens, then certainly the whole Torah should be prohibited to the Israelites, who had acted as apostates with the Golden Calf. The Gemara deduced God's approval from God's mention of Moses' breaking the tablets in . Resh Lakish interpreted this to mean that God gave Moses strength because he broke the tablets. Reading the prohibition of non-Jews eating the Passover sacrifice in and 48, the Gemara told the tale of a certain Syrian non-Jew who used to eat of the Passover sacrifices in Jerusalem, boasting that says, "There shall no alien eat thereof," and says, "No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof," yet he ate of the very best. Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra asked him whether he had ever eaten of the fat tail, and the Syrian replied that he had not. So Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra told the Syrian that the next time he went to Jerusalem for Passover, he should ask them to give him the fat tail. So when the Syrian went up, he asked them for the fat-tail. They answered him that the fat-tail belongs to God (and is burnt on the altar) and asked him who told him to ask for it. The Syrian told them that Rabbi