Exodus 12:2-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:10

Ye shall let nothing of it remain till the morning . The whole of the flesh was to be consumed by the guests, and at one sitting, lest there should be any even accidental profanation of the food by man or animal, if part were put away. The English Church, acting on the same principle of careful reverence, declines to allow any reservation of the Eucharistic elements, requiring the whole of the consecrated bread and wine to be consumed by the Priest and communicants in the Church immediately... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:2

This month - Abib Exodus 13:4. It was called “Nisan” by the later Hebrews, and nearly corresponds to our April. The Israelites are directed to take Abib henceforth as the beginning of the year; the year previously began with the month Tisri, when the harvest was gathered in; see Exodus 23:16. The injunction touching Abib or Nisan referred only to religious rites; in other affairs they retained the old arrangement, even in the beginning of the Sabbatic year; see Leviticus 25:9. 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:4

Tradition specifies ten as the least number; but the matter was probably left altogether to the discretion of the heads of families.The last clause should be rendered: “each man, according to his eating, ye shall count for the lamb.” read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:5

Without blemish - This is in accordance with the general rule (margin reference): although in this case there is a special reason, since the lamb was in place of the firstborn male in each household. The restriction to the first year is unique, and refers apparently to the condition of perfect innocence in the antitype, the Lamb of God. 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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:10

This was afterward a general law of sacrifices; at once preventing all possibility of profanity, and of superstitious abuse. The injunction is on both accounts justly applied by our Church to the eucharist.Burn with fire - Not being consumed by man, it was thus offered, like other sacrifices Exodus 12:8, to God. read more

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:10

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