Exodus 12:2-3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:1-2

Exodus 12:1-2. The Lord spake unto Moses Or had spoken before what is related in the foregoing chapter, if not also before the three days’ darkness: but the mention of it was put off to this place, that the history of the plagues might not be interrupted. This month shall be to you the beginning of months That is, the first and principal month of the year. It was called Abib, (Exodus 13:4; Exodus 23:15,) which signifies an ear of corn, because then the corn was eared. It answers... 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 12:2

month . Hebrew name Abib, or "green-ear-month". Becomes the first month, and the fifteenth the ruling date, henceforth. Compare Exodus 13:4 ; Exodus 23:15 .Deuteronomy 16:1 . Afterward called Nisan (Nehemiah 2:0 .Esther 3:7; Esther 3:7 ). "First", Compare Exodus 40:2 , Exodus 40:17 . Leviticus 23:5 , in place of Tisri, which thus be-came the seventh month. 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 12:2

Exodus 12:2. This month shall be unto you the beginning of months— The Jews, like most other nations, began their year, before this event, about the autumnal equinox, in the month Tisri, after their harvest and vintage: but that which was their first month, now became their seventh; as the month Abib, which answers principally to our March, was, by God's appointment, and in commemoration of this their deliverance, constituted the first month of their sacred year. Abib signifies the green corn;... 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 12:2

2. this month shall be unto you the beginning of months—the first not only in order but in estimation. It had formerly been the seventh according to the reckoning of the civil year, which began in September, and continued unchanged, but it was thenceforth to stand first in the national religious year which began in March, April. 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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:1-2

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

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 12:2

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

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

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:2

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:2

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

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