Exodus 12:2-10

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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:4

Exodus 12:4. If the household be too little The Hebrew doctors tell us, that there were not to be fewer than ten persons, nor more than twenty, to the eating of one lamb. And at this sacred repast, men, women, and children, masters and servants, if circumcised, were entertained. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:5

Exodus 12:5. Your lamb shall be without blemish Shall be perfect, as the Hebrew is, that is, in all its parts. This was a qualification indispensably requisite in all sacrifices: Leviticus 22:20-24. Even the heathen, in the worship of their false gods, were particular in this circumstance. A male Because the males were accounted more excellent, and their flesh better than that of females. Of the first year Under a year old, not above: for the lamb, as also a kid and calf, was fit for... 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:10-11

Exodus 12:10-11. With your loins girded In a travelling posture, prepared for a journey, which is also the import of the three following particulars. Ye shall eat it in haste As men expecting every moment to begin their journey. Now all these ceremonies were to accompany the feast, that it might be a more lively commemoration of their signal deliverance out of Egypt. It is the Lord’s passover A sacrifice in honour of Jehovah, who passed over, or spared the Israelites, when he smote 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

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:5

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:10-11

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

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

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