Exo 12:3, 6, Num 9:13 | TSK | STEP | Speak ye. in the tenth. take to. 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. 5 that the Hebrews might take either; but they generally preferred a lamb, from being of a more gentle nature. an house.The Israelites were divided into twelve tribes, these tribes into families, the families into houses, and the houses into particular persons.

Exodus 12:3

Speak ye.

in the tenth.

take to.

Ge 4:4; 22:8; 1Sa 7:9; Joh 1:29,36; 1Co 5:7; Re 5:6-13; 7:9-14; 13:8

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. 5 that the Hebrews might take either; but they generally preferred a lamb, from being of a more gentle nature.

Le 5:6; Nu 15:11; 2Ch 35:7

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

Nu 1:1-54; Jos 7:14

Exodus 12:6

fourteenth.

Le 23:5; Nu 9:3; 28:16,18; De 16:1-6; 2Ch 30:15; Eze 45:21

the whole.

2Ch 30:15-18; Isa 53:6; Mt 27:20,25; Mr 15:1,8,11,25,33,34

Lu 23:1,18; Ac 2:23; 3:14; 4:27

in the evening. 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.

16:12; Mt 27:46-50

Numbers 9:13

forbeareth.

15:30,31; 19:13; Ge 17:14; Ex 12:15; Le 17:4,10,14-16; Heb 2:3

Heb 6:6; 10:26-29; 12:25

because.

2,3,7

bear his sin.

5:31; Le 20:20; 22:9; Eze 23:49; Heb 9:28