VW-Edition Bible (2010)

1And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a house. 4And if the house is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of souls; according to each man's eating you shall reckon it for the lamb. 5Your lamb shall be whole, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it within the evening. 7And they shall take some of the blood and put it upon the two doorposts and upon the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 8And they shall eat the flesh in that night; roasted with fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat it raw, nor cooked with boiling in water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and its entrails. 10And you shall let none of it remain until morning; and whatever remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. 11And thus you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is Passover unto Jehovah. 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am Jehovah. 13And the blood shall be a sign unto you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14And this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast unto Jehovah throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by a perpetual ordinance. 15Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; except for each soul for eating; that only may be done by you. 17And you shall observe Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a perpetual ordinance. 18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening. 19For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread. 21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover. 22And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. 23For Jehovah will pass through to strike Egypt; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. 24And you shall observe this matter as an ordinance for you and your sons perpetually. 25And it shall come to pass when you come to the land which Jehovah shall give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service. 26And it shall be, when your children say to you, What do you mean by this service? 27that you shall say, It is the Passover sacrifice of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt and delivered our houses. So the people bowed down and prostrated themselves. 28And the sons of Israel departed and did as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. 29And it came to pass at midnight that Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house, and every firstborn of livestock. 30And Pharaoh arose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great outcry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one who died. 31And he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve Jehovah as you have said. 32Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also. 33And the Egyptians prevailed upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they thought, We shall all die! 34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. 35And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing. 36And Jehovah had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that they granted their requests. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. 37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. 38And a mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds; exceedingly many cattle. 39And they baked unleavened cakes from the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared food for themselves. 40Now the time the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt remained there was four hundred and thirty years. 41And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on the same day it came to pass, that all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt. 42It is a night of observance unto Jehovah for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of Jehovah, an observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations. 43And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: No son of a foreigner shall eat of it. 44But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.  45A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. 46In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its bones. 47All the congregation of Israel shall observe it. 48And when a sojourner stays with you and wishes to keep the Passover unto Jehovah, let every male of his be circumcised, and then let him draw near to observe it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it. 49One law shall be for the native, and for the sojourner who stays among you. 50Thus all the children of Israel did; as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51And it came to pass on the same day, that Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Exod 12:1 The beginning of the year is changed.
Exod 12:3 The passover is instituted.
Exod 12:11 The import of the rite of the passover.
Exod 12:15 Unleavened bread, etc.
Exod 12:29 The firstborn are slain.
Exod 12:31 The Israelites are driven out of the land.
Exod 12:37 They come to Succoth.
Exod 12:41 The time of their sojourning.
Exod 12:43 The ordinance of the passover.
Exod 12:1

 2   A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Exod. Isr. 1. Abib or Nisan.
Exod 13:4 Exod 23:15 Exod 34:18 Lev 23:5 Num 28:16 Deut 16:1 Esth 3:7

 3   Speak ye.
Exod 4:30 Exod 6:6 Exod 14:15 Exod 20:19 Lev 1:2
in the tenth.
Exod 12:6 John 12:1 John 12:12
take to.
Gen 4:4 Gen 22:8 1Sam 7:9 John 1:29 John 1:36 1Cor 5:7 Rev 5:6 - Rev 5:13 Rev 7:9 - Rev 7:14 Rev 13:8
lamb. or, kid. The word seh means the young of both sheep and goats, and may be indifferently rendered either lamb or kid. It is evident from ver. 5 Exod 12:5 that the Hebrews might take either; but they generally preferred a lamb, from being of a more gentle nature.
Lev 5:6 Num 15:11 2Chr 35:7
an house. The Israelites were divided into twelve tribes, these tribes into families, the families into houses, and the houses into particular persons.
Num 1:1 - Num 1:54 Josh 7:14

 4   Exod 12:4

 5   be without.
Lev 1:3 Lev 1:10 Lev 22:19 - Lev 22:24 Deut 17:1 Mal 1:7 Mal 1:8 Mal 1:14 Heb 7:26 Heb 9:13 Heb 9:14 1Pet 1:18 1Pet 1:19
a male of the first year. Heb. son of a year.
Lev 23:12 1Sam 13:1
*marg:
Exod 12:5

 6   fourteenth.
Lev 23:5 Num 9:3 Num 28:16 Num 28:18 Deut 16:1 - Deut 16:6 2Chr 30:15 Ezek 45:21
the whole.
2Chr 30:15 - 2Chr 30:18 Isa 53:6 Matt 27:20 Matt 27:25 Mark 15:1 Mark 15:8 Mark 15:11 Mark 15:25 Mark 15:33 Mark 15:34 Luke 23:1 Luke 23:18 Acts 2:23 Acts 3:14 Acts 4:27
in the evening. Heb. between the two evenings. The Jews divided the day into morning and evening: till the sun passed the meridian, all was morning or forenoon; after that, all was evening or afternoon. Their first evening began just after twelve o'clock, and continued till sunset; their second evening began at sunset, and continued till night, i.e., during the whole time of twilight; between twelve o'clock, therefore, and the termination of twilight, the passover was to be offered. See Parallel Passages.
Exod 16:12 Matt 27:46 - Matt 27:50

 7   Exod 12:22 Exod 12:23 Eph 1:7 Heb 9:13 Heb 9:14 Heb 9:22 Heb 10:14 Heb 10:29 Heb 11:28 1Pet 1:2

 8   eat the.
Matt 26:26 John 6:52 - John 6:57
roast.
Deut 16:7 Ps 22:14 Isa 53:10
unleavened.
Exod 13:3 Exod 13:7 Exod 34:25 Num 9:11 Deut 16:3 Amos 4:5 Matt 16:12 1Cor 5:6 - 1Cor 5:8 Gal 5:9
with bitter.
Exod 1:14 Num 9:11 Zech 12:10 1Thess 1:6

 9   but roast with fire.
Exod 12:8 Deut 16:7 Lam 1:13

 10   Exod 23:18 Exod 29:34 Exod 34:25 Lev 7:15 - Lev 7:17 Lev 22:30 Deut 16:4 Deut 16:5

 11   loins.
Matt 26:19 Matt 26:20 Luke 12:35 Eph 6:15 1Pet 1:13
shoes.
Luke 7:38 Luke 15:22 Eph 6:15
it is the.
Exod 12:27 Lev 23:5 Num 28:16 Deut 16:2 - Deut 16:6 1Cor 5:7

 12   pass.
Exod 12:23 Exod 11:4 Exod 11:5 Amos 5:17
will smite.
Exod 12:29 Exod 12:30 Exod 11:4 - Exod 11:6
against.
Num 33:4 1Sam 5:3 1Sam 6:5 1Chr 14:12 Isa 19:1 Jer 43:13 Zeph 2:11
gods. or, princes.
Exod 21:6 Exod 22:28 Ps 82:1 Ps 82:6 John 10:34 John 10:35
I am the Lord.
Exod 6:2 Isa 43:11 - Isa 43:15 Ezek 12:16

 13   the blood.
Exod 12:23 Gen 17:11 Josh 2:12 Heb 11:28
and when.
1Thess 1:10 1John 1:7
to destroy you. Heb. for a destruction.


 14   memorial.
Exod 13:9 Num 16:40 Josh 4:7 Ps 111:4 Ps 135:13 Zech 6:14 Matt 26:13 Luke 22:19 1Cor 11:23 - 1Cor 11:26
a feast.
Exod 5:1 Deut 16:11 Neh 8:9 - Neh 8:12
by an ordinance.
Exod 12:17 Exod 12:24 Exod 12:43 Exod 13:10 Lev 23:4 Lev 23:5 Num 10:8 Num 18:8 Deut 16:1 1Sam 30:25 2Kgs 23:21 Ezek 46:14 1Cor 5:7 1Cor 5:8

 15   Seven.
Exod 12:8 Exod 13:6 Exod 13:7 - Exod 13:10 Exod 23:15 Exod 34:18 Exod 34:25 Lev 23:5 - Lev 23:8 Num 28:17 Deut 16:3 Deut 16:5 Deut 16:8 Matt 16:12 Luke 12:1 Acts 12:3
that soul.
Exod 12:19 Exod 12:20 Exod 31:14 Gen 17:14 Lev 17:10 Lev 17:14 Num 9:13 Mal 2:12 Gal 5:12

 16   first day.
Lev 23:2 Lev 23:3 Lev 23:7 Lev 23:8 Lev 23:21 Lev 23:24 Lev 23:25 Lev 23:27 Lev 23:35 Num 28:18 Num 28:25 Num 29:1 Num 29:12
no manner.
Exod 16:5 Exod 16:23 Exod 16:29 Exod 20:10 Exod 35:2 Exod 35:3 Jer 17:21 Jer 17:22
man Heb. soul.


 17   in this selfsame.
Exod 7:5 Exod 13:8 Num 20:16
an ordinance.
Exod 12:14

 18   Exod 12:1 Exod 12:15 Lev 23:5 Lev 23:6 Num 28:16

 19   Seven.
Exod 23:15 Exod 34:18 Deut 16:3 1Cor 5:7 1Cor 5:8
even that.
Exod 12:15 Num 9:13
whether.
Exod 12:43 Exod 12:48

 20   Exod 12:20

 21   elders.
Exod 3:16 Exod 17:5 Exod 19:7 Num 11:16
and take.
Exod 12:3 Num 9:2 - Num 9:5 Josh 5:10 2Kgs 23:21 2Chr 30:15 - 2Chr 30:17 2Chr 35:5 2Chr 35:6 Ezra 6:20 Matt 26:17 - Matt 26:19 Mark 14:12 - Mark 14:16 Luke 22:7 - Luke 22:13 1Cor 10:4
lamb. or, kid.
Exod 12:3
*marg:
Exod 12:21
the passover. That is, the lamb which was called the paschal, or passover lamb; the animal sacrificed obtaining the name of the institution. St. Paul copies the expression in 1 Co 5:7.


 22   a bunch.
Lev 14:6 Lev 14:7 Num 19:18 Ps 51:7 Heb 9:1 Heb 9:14 Heb 9:19 Heb 11:28 Heb 12:24 1Pet 1:2
hyssop. The word aizov, which has been variously rendered, most probably denotes Hyssop; whence are derived the Chaldee aizova, Syriac zupha, Arabic zupha, Ethiopic azab, and hushopa, Greek [`ussopos, hussopos *G5301*,] Latin hyssopus, German usop, and our hyssop, a name retained, with little variation, in all the western languages. It is a plant of the gymnospermia (naked seeded) order, belonging to the didynamia class. It has bushy stalks, growing a foot and a half high; small spear-shaped, close-sitting, and opposite leaves, with several smaller ones rising from the same joint; and all the stalks and branches terminated by erect whorled spikes of flowers, of different colours in the varieties of the plant. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. Its detersive, cleansing, and medicinal qualities were probably the reason why it was so particularly recommended in Scripture.
strike.
Exod 12:7
and none.
Matt 26:30

 23   will pass through.
Exod 12:12 Exod 12:13
and will not.
2Sam 24:16 Isa 37:36 Ezek 9:4 Ezek 9:6 1Cor 10:10 Heb 11:28 Heb 12:24 Rev 7:3 Rev 9:4

 24   Exod 12:14 Gen 17:8 - Gen 17:10

 25   when.
Deut 4:5 Deut 12:8 Deut 12:9 Deut 16:5 - Deut 16:9 Josh 5:10 - Josh 5:12 Ps 105:44 Ps 105:45
according.
Exod 3:8 Exod 3:17

 26   your children.
Exod 13:8 Exod 13:9 Exod 13:14 Exod 13:15 Exod 13:22 Deut 6:7 Deut 11:19 Deut 32:7 Josh 4:6 Josh 4:7 Josh 4:21 - Josh 4:24 Ps 78:3 - Ps 78:6 Ps 145:4 Isa 38:19 Eph 6:4

 27   It is the sacrifice.
Exod 12:11 Exod 12:23 Exod 34:25 Deut 16:2 Deut 16:5 1Cor 5:7
bowed.
Exod 4:31 Exod 34:8 1Chr 29:20 2Chr 20:18 2Chr 29:30 Neh 8:6

 28   Heb 11:28

 29   at midnight.
Exod 12:12 Exod 11:4 Exod 13:15 Job 34:20 1Thess 5:2 1Thess 5:3
the Lord smote. The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant, p. 160.
Num 3:13 Num 8:17 Num 33:4 Ps 78:51 Ps 105:36 Ps 135:8 Ps 136:10 Heb 11:28 Heb 12:23
the first-born of Pharaoh.
Exod 4:23 Exod 11:5
dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.
Isa 24:22 Isa 51:14 Jer 38:6 Jer 38:13 Zech 9:11

 30   and there was a great cry. No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!
Exod 11:6 Pro 21:13 Amos 5:17 Matt 25:6 Jas 2:13

 31   called.
Exod 10:29
Rise up.
Exod 3:19 Exod 3:20 Exod 6:1 Exod 11:1 Exod 11:8 Ps 105:38
the children.
Exod 10:9

 32   your flocks.
Exod 10:26
bless me.
Exod 8:28 Exod 9:28 Gen 27:34 Gen 27:38

 33   urgent.
Exod 11:1 Ps 105:38
We be all.
Gen 20:3 Num 17:12 Num 17:13

 34   kneading troughs. or, dough.
Exod 8:3
Probably like the kneading-troughs of the Arabs; comparatively small wooden bowls, which also serve them for dishes. Their being bound up in their clothes may mean no more than their being wrapped up in their hykes, or long, loose, garments. See Shaw's Travels, p. 224, 4to. edit.


 35   Exod 3:21 Exod 3:22 Exod 11:2 Exod 11:3 Gen 15:14 Ps 105:37

 36   the Lord.
Exod 3:21 Exod 11:3 Gen 39:21 Pro 16:7 Dan 1:9 Acts 2:47 Acts 7:10
they spoiled.
Exod 3:22 Gen 15:14 Ps 105:37

 37   the children.
Num 33:3 Num 33:5
Rameses.
Exod 1:11 Gen 47:11
six hundred.
Exod 38:26 Gen 12:2 Gen 15:5 Gen 46:3 Num 1:46 Num 11:21

 38   And a mixed multitude. Heb. a great mixture.
Num 11:4 Zech 8:23

 39   thrust.
Exod 12:33 Exod 6:1 Exod 11:1

 40   The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, and of their fathers in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt, was 430 years." The Alexandrine copy of the LXX. has the same reading; and the same statement is made by the apostle Paul, in Gal 3:17, who reckons from the promise made to Abraham to the giving of the law. That these three witnesses have the truth, the chronology itself proves; for it is evident that the descendants of Israel did not dwell 430 years in Egypt; while it is equally evident, that the period from Abraham's entry into Canaan to the Exodus, is exactly that number. Thus, from Abraham's entrance into the promised land to the birth of Isaac, was 25 years; Isaac was 60 at the birth of Jacob; Jacob was 130 at his going into Egypt; where he and his children continued 215 years more; making in the whole 430 years. See Kennicott's Dissertation on the Hebrew Text.
sojourning.
Acts 13:17 Heb 11:9
four hundred.
Gen 12:1 - Gen 12:3 Gen 15:13 Acts 7:6 Gal 3:16 Gal 3:17

 41   selfsame.
Ps 102:13 Dan 9:24 Hab 2:3 John 7:8 Acts 1:7
hosts.
Exod 12:51 Exod 7:4 Josh 5:14

 42   a night to be much observed. Heb. a night of observations. observed.
Exod 12:14 Deut 16:1 - Deut 16:6

 43   There shall.
Exod 12:48 Lev 22:10 Num 9:14 Eph 2:12

 44   circumcised.
Gen 17:12 Gen 17:13 Gen 17:23

 45   Lev 22:10 Eph 2:12

 46   one house.
1Cor 12:12 Eph 2:19 - Eph 2:22
neither.
Num 9:12 John 19:33 John 19:36

 47   All the.
Exod 12:3 Exod 12:6 Num 9:13
keep it. Heb. do it.


 48   a stranger.
Exod 12:43 Num 9:14 Num 15:15 Num 15:16
let all.
Gen 17:12 Ezek 44:9 Ezek 47:22
shall be.
Gal 3:28 Col 3:11

 49   Lev 24:22 Num 9:14 Num 15:15 Num 15:16 Num 15:29 Gal 3:28 Col 3:11

 50   as the Lord.
Deut 4:1 Deut 4:2 Deut 12:32 Matt 7:24 Matt 7:25 Matt 28:20 John 2:5 John 13:17 John 15:14 Rev 22:15
by their armies.
Exod 12:41 Exod 6:26 Exod 7:4

 51   Exod 12:51