it. Ellipsis to be supplied by "the lamb" from verse preceding ( App-6 ). souls . Hebrew, plural of nephesh. Verse 15, singular. See App-13 . eating. Hebrew mouth. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , mouth put for what is eaten by it. lamb . Repeated at beginning of next clause in the Figure of speech Anadiplosis ( App-6 ) for emphasis. read more
without blemish . Even as "Christ our Passover". read more
Israel . Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "of the sons of Israel". kill. Hebrew. shahat. See App-43 . in the evening . Hebrew between the two evenings, or, according to Lightfoot, between the decline of the sun (after noon) and its setting. read more
sodden = boiled. with = in. read more
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
"And if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next to his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats; and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.""According to every man's eating, ye... read more
"And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and upon the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with... read more
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
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
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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