Exodus 12:21
19 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.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
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.
22 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.
23 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.
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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
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:
Read in context2 Kings 23:21
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
Read in contextMark 14:12–16
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Read in contextJoshua 5:10
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Read in contextEzra 6:20
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Read in contextNumbers 9:2–5
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Read in context2 Chronicles 35:5–6
And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.
Read in contextLuke 22:7–13
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
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