Exodus 12:22

²⁰ You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

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.

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.

²⁴ And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

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BSB: 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.
KJV: 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.
WEB: You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
ASV: And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
DARBY: And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that is in the bason, and smear the lintel and the two door-posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
BLB: And you⁺ shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the basin, and you⁺ shall touch [it] to the lintel and to the two doorposts from the blood that [is] in the basin. and you⁺—each man—shall not go out from the door of his house until morning.

ÅB: Og dere skal ta et knippe isop og dyppe i blodet som er i skålen, og stryke på det øverste dørtre og på begge dørstolpene noe av blodet i skålen, og ingen av dere skal gå ut av sin husdør før om morgenen.
OTB: Og dere skal ta en bunt isop, dyppe den i blodet som er i fatet, og stryke noe av blodet som er i fatet på den øvre dørbjelken og de to dørstolpene; og ingen av dere skal gå utenfor døren til huset sitt før morgenen.
B1930: Og I skal ta et knippe isop og dyppe i blodet som er i skålen, og stryke på det øverste dørtre og på begge dørstolpene noget av blodet i skålen, og ingen av eder skal gå ut av sin husdør før om morgenen.

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Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
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Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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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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Numbers 19:18
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
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Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
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Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
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Hebrews 9:1
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
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Leviticus 14:6–7
And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
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