Exodus 12
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

speak ye

Exodus 4:30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, …

Exodus 6:6 Why say to the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring …

Exodus 14:15 And the LORD said to Moses, Why cry you to me? speak to the children …

Exodus 20:19 And they said to Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear: but …

Leviticus 1:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man of you …

in the tenth

Exodus 12:6 And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month…

John 12:1,12 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus …

take to

Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the …

Genesis 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt …

1 Samuel 7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering …

John 1:29,36 The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the …

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as …

Revelation 5:6-13 And I beheld, and, see, in the middle of the throne and of the four …

Revelation 7:9-14 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could …

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him…

lamb. or kid. The word seh means the young of both sheep and goats, and may be indifferently rendered either lamb or kid. It is evident from ver.

Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you …

Leviticus 5:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin …

Numbers 15:11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.

2 Chronicles 35:7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all …

an house. The Israelites were divided into twelve tribes, these tribes into families, the families into houses, and the houses into particular persons.

Numbers 1:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle …

Joshua 7:14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: …

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

pass

Exodus 12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he …

Exodus 11:4,5 And Moses said, Thus said the LORD, About midnight will I go out …

Amos 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, …

will smite

Exodus 12:29,30 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn …

Exodus 11:4-6 And Moses said, Thus said the LORD, About midnight will I go out …

against

Numbers 33:4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had …

1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon …

1 Samuel 6:5 Why you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice …

1 Chronicles 14:12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, …

Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and …

Jeremiah 43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt…

Zephaniah 2:11 The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods …

gods. or princes

Exodus 21:6 Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring …

Exodus 22:28 You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.

Psalm 82:1,6 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods…

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?

I am the Lord

Exodus 6:2 And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am the LORD:

Isaiah 43:11-15 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior…

Ezekiel 12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, …

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

memorial

Exodus 13:9 And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial …

Numbers 16:40 To be a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger, which …

Joshua 4:7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off …

Psalm 111:4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious …

Psalm 135:13 Your name, O LORD, endures for ever; and your memorial, O LORD, throughout …

Zechariah 6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, …

Matthew 26:13 Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the …

Luke 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave to them, …

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you…

a feast

Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus said …

Deuteronomy 16:11 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, …

Nehemiah 8:9-12 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, …

by an ordinance

Exodus 12:17,24,43 And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this …

Exodus 13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Leviticus 23:4,5 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which you …

Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets…

Numbers 18:8 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, Behold…

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to the LORD your God…

1 Samuel 30:25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and …

2 Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …

Ezekiel 46:14 And you shall prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth …

1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as …

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

elders

Exodus 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, The …

Exodus 17:5 And the LORD said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with …

Exodus 19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid …

Numbers 11:16 And the LORD said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders …

and take

Exodus 12:3 Speak you to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth …

Numbers 9:2-5 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season…

Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover …

2 Kings 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover …

2 Chronicles 30:15-17 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second …

2 Chronicles 35:5,6 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families …

Ezra 6:20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure…

Matthew 26:17-19 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples …

Mark 14:12-16 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, …

Luke 22:7 Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that …

lamb, or kid

Exodus 12:3 Speak you to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth …

the passover. That is, the lamb which was called the paschal, or passover lamb; the animal sacrificed obtaining the name of the institution. Paul copies the expression in

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as …

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

bunch

Leviticus 14:6,7 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and …

Numbers 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and …

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall …

Hebrews 9:1,14,19 Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, …

Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, …

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of …

1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification …

hyssop. The word aizov, which has been variously rendered, most probably denotes Hyssop; whence are derived the Chaldee aizova, Syriac zupha, Arabic zupha, Ethiopic azab, and hushopa, and our hyssop, a name retained, with little variation, in all the western languages. It is a plant of the gymnospermia (naked seeded) order, belonging to the didynamia class. It has bushy stalks, growing a foot and a half high; small spear-shaped, close-sitting, and opposite leaves, with several smaller ones rising from the same joint; and all the stalks and branches terminated by erect whorled spikes of flowers, of different colours in the varieties of the plant. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. Its detersive, cleansing, and medicinal qualities were probably the reason why it was so particularly recommended in Scripture. Strike

Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts …

and none

Matthew 26:30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

at midnight

Exodus 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite …

Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, Thus said the LORD, About midnight will I go out …

Exodus 13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the …

Job 34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, …

1 Thessalonians 5:2,3 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …

the Lord smote. The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, and had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable.

Numbers 3:13 Because all the firstborn are mine…

Numbers 8:17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast…

Numbers 33:4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had …

Psalm 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength …

Psalm 105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

Psalm 135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

Psalm 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever:

Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, …

Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written …

the first-born of Pharaoh

Exodus 4:23 And I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if you …

Exodus 11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first …

dungeon. Heb. house of the pit

Isaiah 24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in …

Isaiah 51:14 The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should …

Jeremiah 38:6,13 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah …

Zechariah 9:11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth …

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

and there was a great cry. No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!

Exodus 11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, …

Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry …

Amos 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, …

Matthew 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; …

James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …

And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

kneading trough. or dough

Exodus 8:3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go …

Probably like the kneading-trough of the Arabs; comparatively small wooden bowls, which also serve them for dishes. Their being bound up in their clothes may mean no more than their being wrapped up in their hykes, or long, loose, garments.

And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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