Exo 12:3-14, 21-30 | 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 12:3-14

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

be without.

Le 1:3,10; 22:19-24; De 17:1; Mal 1:7,8,14; Heb 7:26; 9:13,14

1Pe 1:18,19

a male of the first year. Heb. son of a year.

Le 23:12; 1Sa 13:1; *marg:

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

22,23; Eph 1:7; Heb 9:13,14,22; 10:14,29; 11:28; 1Pe 1:2

eat the.

Mt 26:26; Joh 6:52-57

roast.

De 16:7; Ps 22:14; Isa 53:10

unleavened.

13:3,7; 34:25; Nu 9:11; De 16:3; Am 4:5; Mt 16:12; 1Co 5:6-8

Ga 5:9

with bitter.

1:14; Nu 9:11; Zec 12:10; 1Th 1:6

but roast with fire.

8; De 16:7; La 1:13

23:18; 29:34; 34:25; Le 7:15-17; 22:30; De 16:4,5

loins.

Mt 26:19,20; Lu 12:35; Eph 6:15; 1Pe 1:13

shoes.

Lu 7:38; 15:22; Eph 6:15

it is the.

27; Le 23:5; Nu 28:16; De 16:2-6; 1Co 5:7

pass.

23; 11:4,5; Am 5:17

will smite.

29,30; 11:4-6

against.

Nu 33:4; 1Sa 5:3; 6:5; 1Ch 14:12; Isa 19:1; Jer 43:13; Zep 2:11

gods. or, princes.

21:6; 22:28; Ps 82:1,6; Joh 10:34,35

I am the Lord.

6:2; Isa 43:11-15; Eze 12:16

the blood.

23; Ge 17:11; Jos 2:12; Heb 11:28

and when.

1Th 1:10; 1Jo 1:7

to destroy you. Heb. for a destruction.

memorial.

13:9; Nu 16:40; Jos 4:7; Ps 111:4; 135:13; Zec 6:14; Mt 26:13

Lu 22:19; 1Co 11:23-26

a feast.

5:1; De 16:11; Ne 8:9-12

by an ordinance.

17,24,43; 13:10; Le 23:4,5; Nu 10:8; 18:8; De 16:1; 1Sa 30:25

2Ki 23:21; Eze 46:14; 1Co 5:7,8

Exodus 12:21-30

elders.

3:16; 17:5; 19:7; Nu 11:16

and take.

3; Nu 9:2-5; Jos 5:10; 2Ki 23:21; 2Ch 30:15-17; 35:5,6; Ezr 6:20

Mt 26:17-19; Mr 14:12-16; Lu 22:7-13; 1Co 10:4

lamb. or, kid.

3; *marg:

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 Co 5:7.

a bunch.

Le 14:6,7; Nu 19:18; Ps 51:7; Heb 9:1,14,19; 11:28; 12:24; 1Pe 1:2

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 [`ussopos,] hussopos ,] 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.

strike.

and none.

Mt 26:30

will pass through.

12,13

and will not.

2Sa 24:16; Isa 37:36; Eze 9:4,6; 1Co 10:10; Heb 11:28; 12:24

Re 7:3; 9:4

14; Ge 17:8-10

when.

De 4:5; 12:8,9; 16:5-9; Jos 5:10-12; Ps 105:44,45

according.

3:8,17

your children.

13:8,9,14,15,22; De 6:7; 11:19; 32:7; Jos 4:6,7,21-24; Ps 78:3-6

Ps 145:4; Isa 38:19; Eph 6:4

It is the sacrifice.

11,23; 34:25; De 16:2,5; 1Co 5:7

bowed.

4:31; 34:8; 1Ch 29:20; 2Ch 20:18; 29:30; Ne 8:6

Heb 11:28

at midnight.

12; 11:4; 13:15; Job 34:20; 1Th 5:2,3

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

Nu 3:13; 8:17; 33:4; Ps 78:51; 105:36; 135:8; 136:10; Heb 11:28

Heb 12:23

the first-born of Pharaoh.

4:23; 11:5

dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.

Isa 24:22; 51:14; Jer 38:6,13; Zec 9:11

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!

11:6; Pr 21:13; Am 5:17; Mt 25:6; Jas 2:13