Exodus 12:22

²⁰ Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

²¹ 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.

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.

²⁴ And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

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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
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
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Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Exodus 12:7
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
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Numbers 19:18
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
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Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
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Hebrews 9:1
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
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Leviticus 14:6–7
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
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