Exodus 12:21
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.
20 You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
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.
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.
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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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
- ASV
- Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.
- DARBY
- And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover.
- BLB
- And Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Draw out and take for yourselves lambs according to your⁺ families, and slaughter the Passover.
- ÅB
- Da kalte Moses alle Israels eldste til seg og sa til dem: Gå og hent småfe for deres familier og slakt påskelammet!
- OTB
- Da kalte Moses til seg alle de eldste i Israel og instruerte dem: «Gå og velg ut lam for dere selv etter deres familier, og ofre påskelammet.
- B1930
- Da kalte Moses alle Israels eldste til sig og sa til dem: Gå og hent småfe for eders familier og slakt påskelammet!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in context2 Kings 23:21
The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
Read in contextMark 14:12–16
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Read in contextJoshua 5:10
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
Read in contextEzra 6:20
All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.
Read in contextNumbers 9:2–5
“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Read in context2 Chronicles 35:5–6
Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites.
Read in contextLuke 22:7–13
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
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