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Exodus 12

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Exodus 12 . 1 , The beginning of the year is changed; Exodus 12 . 3 , The passover is instituted; Exodus 12 . 11 , The import of the rite of the passover; Exodus 12 . 15 , Unleavened bread , etc; Exodus 12 . 29 , The firstborn are slain; Exodus 12 . 31 , The Israelites are driven out of the land; Exodus 12 . 37 , They come to Succoth; Exodus 12 . 41 , The time of their sojourning; Exodus 12 . 43 , The ordinance of the passover.

Exodus 12:1

Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 12:1 · BSB

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Exodus 12:2

“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

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am 2513 , bc 1491 , An , Exod , Isr , 1 , Abib or Nisan

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Exodus 12:3

Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

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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

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

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Exodus 12:4

If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

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Exodus 12:5

Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

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Heb. son of a year

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Exodus 12:6

You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

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Heb. between the two evenings , The Jews divided the day into morning and evening . till the sun passed the meridian , all was morning or forenoon; after that , all was evening or afternoon. Their first evening began just after twelve o'clock , and continued till sunset; their second evening began at sunset , and continued till night , i.e. , during the whole time of twilight; between twelve o'clock , therefore , and the termination of twilight , the passover was to be offered . see parallel passages

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Exodus 12:7

They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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Exodus 12:8

They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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Exodus 12:9

Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

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Exodus 12:10

Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

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Exodus 12:11

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.

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Exodus 12:12

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

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or , princes

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Exodus 12:13

The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

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to destroy you Heb. for a destruction

Exodus 12:14

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

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Exodus 12:15

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

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Exodus 12:16

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

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Exodus 12:17

So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

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Exodus 12:18

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

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Exodus 12:19

For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

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Exodus 12:20

You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes."

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Exodus 12:21

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, "Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

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or , kid

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the passover That is , the lamb which was called the paschal , or passover lamb; the animal sacrificed obtaining the name of the institution. St. Paul copies the expression in 1 Corinthians 5 . 7.

Exodus 12:22

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

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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 , Greek ץףףשנןע , hussopos [Strong's G5301] , Latin hyssopus , German usop , 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.

Exodus 12:23

When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

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Exodus 12:24

And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

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Exodus 12:25

When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

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Exodus 12:26

When your children ask you, 'What does this service mean to you?'

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Exodus 12:27

you are to reply, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.'" Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

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Exodus 12:28

And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

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Exodus 12:29

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

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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 , had murdered their offspring , and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant , p. 160

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Heb. house of the pit

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Exodus 12:30

During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

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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!

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Exodus 12:31

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.

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Exodus 12:32

Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

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Exodus 12:33

And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”

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Exodus 12:34

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.

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kneading troughs , or , dough

  • Exodus 8:3 Probably like the kneading-troughs 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. See Shaw's Travels , p. 224 , 4to. edit

Exodus 12:35

Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses' word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.

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Exodus 12:36

And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

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Exodus 12:37

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

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Exodus 12:38

And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

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Heb. a great mixture

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Exodus 12:39

Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

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Exodus 12:40

Now the duration of the Israelites' stay in Egypt was 430 years.

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The Samaritan Pentateuch reads , "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel , and of their fathers in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt , was 430 years." The Alexandrine copy of the LXX has the same reading; and the same statement is made by the apostle Paul , in

  • Galatians 3:17 who reckons from the promise made to Abraham to the giving of the law. That these three witnesses have the truth , the chronology itself proves; for it is evident that the descendants of Israel did not dwell 430 years in Egypt; while it is equally evident , that the period from Abraham's entry into Canaan to the Exodus , is exactly that number. Thus , from Abraham's entrance into the promised land to the birth of Isaac , was 25 years; Isaac was 60 at the birth of Jacob; Jacob was 130 at his going into Egypt; where he and his children continued 215 years more; making in the whole 430 years. See Kennicott's Dissertation on the Hebrew Text

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Exodus 12:41

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD's divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

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Exodus 12:42

Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.

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Heb. a night of observations , observed

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Exodus 12:43

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

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Exodus 12:44

But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

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Exodus 12:45

A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

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Exodus 12:46

It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

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Exodus 12:47

The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.

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keep it Heb. do it

Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

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Exodus 12:49

The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you."

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Exodus 12:50

Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

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Exodus 12:51

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web36 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Numbers 9:1-14 → Exodus 12:10, Numbers 9:1-14 → Exodus 12:18
Allusions Leviticus 19:33 → Exodus 12:48, Leviticus 19:33-34 → Exodus 12:48, Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:10, Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:18, Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:46, Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:48, Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:8, Numbers 9:1-14 → Exodus 12:46, Numbers 9:1-14 → Exodus 12:48-49, Numbers 9:1-14 → Exodus 12:8, 2 Chronicles 35:13 → Exodus 12:9, Ezra 1:4 → Exodus 12:36, Ezra 1:6 → Exodus 12:35, Ezra 1:6 → Exodus 12:36, Ezra 6:19-22 → Exodus 12:1-28, Psalm 135:8 → Exodus 12:12, Psalm 136:10 → Exodus 12:29, Isaiah 52:11 → Exodus 12:11, Isaiah 52:11-12 → Exodus 12:11
Echoes Acts 5:21 → Exodus 12:21, Leviticus 19:18 → Exodus 12:48, Ezra 1:4 → Exodus 12:35
Trajectories
Covenant Meals (Fellowship with God), Hyssop (Instrument of Blood Application), New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern), Passover (Christ Our Passover Lamb), Plagues of Egypt (Judgment on False Gods), Return from Exile (Restoration and Hope), Unleavened Bread (Purity and Sincerity)
Longitudinal Themes
Sacrifice and Atonement
Anchor Text Networks
Networked Exodus 12 - The Passover
Chiasms
Shaped Exodus 11:1–12:51, Exodus 12:15–20, Exodus 12:40–51
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