Read & Study the Bible Online - Bible Portal
Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:3-6

The Passover lamb a prophetic picture of Christ and his salvation. I. FOR WHOM THE SACRIFICE AVAILS . 1 . The families of Israel, the household of faith. There is no other bulwark against the visitation of the angel of death, and it shields these only. 2 . Those who feed upon him. Saving faith must be a real, appropriating faith. Mere assent to a form of words avails nothing, neither can a mere intellectual Conviction of the truth of Christianity or apprehension of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:3-11

If one died for all then all died. Pharaoh's heart still hardened. The crowning judgment needs no intermediary; Jehovah will reveal His own right arm. Exodus 11:4 . "Who shall live when God doeth this?" He who obeying His word shelters himself beneath His shadow. See:— I. THE PREPARATION . 1 . A carefully selected victim. Exodus 11:5 , deliberately set apart four days beforehand. Pure within; innocence typified by inexperience, "the first year." Pure without, "no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:3-20

The Passover Proper. The Passover may be viewed:— I. AS A COMMEMORATIVE RITE . Instituted with reference to the tenth plague, and as a means by which the first-born of the Israelites might be saved from destruction, but accompanied by ceremonies which were connected with the prospective departure of the whole nation out of Egypt, the Passover feast, as established " by an ordinance for ever," commemorated two distinct and different things. II. AS A FEAST OF ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:3

A lamb - The Hebrew word is general, meaning either a sheep or a goat - male or female - and of any age; the age and sex are therefore epecially defined in the following verse. The direction to select the lamb on the tenth day, the fourth day before it was offered, was intended to secure due care in the preparation for the great national festival. The custom certainly fell into desuetude at a later period, but probably not before the destruction of the temple. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:3

Exodus 12:3. In the tenth day of this month It was necessary they should now begin to prepare the passover four days before, because otherwise it would have been difficult to get ready so many lambs in Egypt, especially as they were to depart in haste; besides, this being the first instance of the celebration of the ordinance, they would require more time to prepare for a ceremony entirely new. But in future ages they did not begin the preparation till the thirteenth, the day before the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

The Passover (12:1-36)Until now the Israelites had escaped the judgment of the plagues without having to do anything, but now their safety depended on their carrying out God’s commands. Redemption involves faith and obedience.Each family would be delivered from judgment only by killing a sacrificial animal as substitute for it, and sprinkling the animal’s blood on the door of the house where the family lived. The sprinkled blood indicated to those outside that a substitutionary sacrifice had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 12:3

Israel . Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "of the sons of Israel". man . Hebrew. 'ish ( App-14 .) lamb . Hebrew. seh, " one of a flock", i.e. a lamb or a ' kid, Exodus 12:5 . Deu 14:4 . 2 Chronicles 35:7 . house . Fixed later (by custom) as not less than ten persons. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-3

THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL"And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 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 their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.""And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron, in the land of Egypt ..." The plain meaning of this is that the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:3

Exodus 12:3. In the tenth day of this month— It appears from Exo 12:6 that the passover was to be celebrated on the fourteenth day of the month. In after-times they did not begin their preparation till the thirteenth, or the day before the passover: but now, they are ordered to prepare on the tenth day of the month; not only because this being the first time of the celebration of the passover, they might require more time to prepare for a ceremony entirely new; but because, being to depart from... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:3

3. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel—The recent events had prepared the Israelitish people for a crisis in their affairs, and they seem to have yielded implicit obedience at this time to Moses. It is observable that, amid all the hurry and bustle of such a departure, their serious attention was to be given to a solemn act of religion. a lamb for an house—a kid might be taken (Exodus 12:5). The service was to be a domestic one, for the deliverance was to be from an evil threatened to... read more

Group of Brands