Exodus 12:3-19
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month let every man take unto him a lamb, according to the house of the [a]fathers, a lamb for an house.
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, he shall take his neighbor, which is next unto his house, according to the number of the persons: every one of you, according to his [b]eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs, or of the kids.
6 And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: then [c]all the multitude of the congregation of Israel shall kill it [d]at even.
7 After, they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two posts, and on the upper doorpost of the houses where they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread: with sour herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not thereof raw, boiled nor sodden in water, but roast with fire, both his [e]head, his feet, and his purtenance.
10 And ye shall reserve nothing of it unto the morning: but that, which remaineth of it unto the morrow shall ye burn with fire.
11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it, Your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste: for [f]it is the Lord’s Passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt the same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment upon all the [g]gods of Egypt, I am the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be a token for you upon the houses where ye are: so when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you a [h]remembrance: and ye shall keep it an holy feast unto the Lord, throughout your generations: ye shall keep it holy by an ordinance [i]forever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, and in any case ye shall put away leaven the first day out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day shall be an holy [j]assembly: also in the seventh day shall be an holy assembly unto you: no work shall be done in them, save about that which every man must eat: that only may ye do.
17 Ye shall keep also the feast of unleavened bread: for that same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore ye shall observe this day, throughout your posterity, by an ordinance forever.
18 ¶ (A)In the first month and the fourteenth day of the month at [k]even, ye shall eat unleavened bread unto the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall no leaven be found in your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread, that person shall be cut off from the Congregation of Israel: whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
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- Exodus 12:3 As the fathers of the household had great or small families.
- Exodus 12:4 He shall take so many as are sufficient to eat the lamb.
- Exodus 12:6 Everyone his house.
- Exodus 12:6 Hebrew, between the two evenings, or twilight.
- Exodus 12:9 That is, all that may be eaten.
- Exodus 12:11 The lamb was not the Passover, but signified it, as sacraments are not the thing itself, which they do represent, but signify it.
- Exodus 12:12 Or, princes, or Idols.
- Exodus 12:14 Of the benefit received for your deliverance.
- Exodus 12:14 That is, until Christ’s coming: for then ceremonies had an end.
- Exodus 12:16 Or, calling together of the people to serve God.
- Exodus 12:18 For in old time so they counted, beginning the day at Sunset till the next day at the same time.
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