Exodus 12:6-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:8

Roast with firs . The meat of sacrificial meals was commonly boiled by the Hebrews ( 1 Samuel 2:14 , 1 Samuel 2:15 ). The command to roast the Paschal lamb is accounted for: 1 . By its being a simpler and quicker process than boiling; 2 . By a special sanctity being regarded as attaching to fire; 3 . By the difficulty of cooking the animal whole unless it were roasted. Justin Martyr's statement that for roasting two wooden spits were required, placed at right angles the one... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:9

Eat not of it raw . The injunction appears to moderns superfluous; but an ὠμοφαγία , or eating of the raw flesh of victims sacrificed, seems to have been practised by several heathen nations in ancient times, more especially in the worship of Dionysus or Bacchus. Its head with its legs . The lamb was to be roasted whole—according to some, as a symbol of the unity of Israel, and especially of the political unit which they were to become so soon as they quitted Egypt; but, as we learn... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:6

Until the fourteenth day - It should be observed that the offering of our Lord on the self-same day is an important point in determining the typical character of the transaction. A remarkable passage in the Talmud says: “It was a famous and old opinion among the ancient Jews that the day of the new year which was the beginning of the Israelites’ deliverance out of Egypt should in future time be the beginning of the redemption by the Messiah.”In the evening - The Hebrew has between the two... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:7

The upper door post - Or lintel, Exodus 12:23. This direction was understood by the Hebrews to apply only to the first Passover: it was certainly not adopted in Palestine. The meaning of the sprinkling of blood is hardly open to question. It was a representation of the offering of the life, substituted for that of the firstborn in each house, as an expiatory and vicarious sacrifice. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:8

In that night - The night is thus clearly distinguished from the evening when the lamb was slain. It was slain before sunset, on the 14th, and eaten after sunset, the beginning of the 15th.With fire - Among various reasons given for this injunction the most probable and satisfactory seems to be the special sanctity attached to fire from the first institution of sacrifice (compare Genesis 4:4).And unleavened bread - On account of the hasty departure, allowing no time for the process of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:9

Raw - i. e. “half-cooked.”Sodden ... with water - It was probably more common to seethe meat than to roast meat; hence, the regrets expressed by the Israelites for the seething pots of Egypt.The purtenance thereof - or its intestines. This verse directs that the lamb should be roasted and placed on the table whole. No bone was to be broken (see Exodus 12:46, and margin reference). The bowels were taken out, washed and then replaced. The Talmud prescribes the form of the oven of earthenware, in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:6

Exodus 12:6. Ye shall keep it up Keep it apart from the rest of the flock. The whole assembly, shall kill it That is, any man of the whole assembly might kill it. For slaying the passover was not appropriated to the priests. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:7

Exodus 12:7. They shall take of the blood Which was to be sprinkled before the flesh was eaten. Strike it on the two side-posts, and the upper door- post These were to be sprinkled by dipping a bunch of hyssop into the blood, Exodus 12:22; but not the threshold, lest any one should tread upon the blood, which would have been profane. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:8-9

Exodus 12:8-9. Eat it not raw Nor half dressed; but roast with fire Not only because it might be sooner roasted than boiled, and they were in haste to be gone; but because it was thus the better type of him who endured the fierceness of divine wrath for us, Lamentations 1:13. Unleavened bread Partly to remind them of their hardships in Egypt, unleavened bread being more heavy and unsavoury; and partly to commemorate their hasty deliverance, which did not allow them time to leaven it,... 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

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:8-9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

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