Exodus 12:2-10

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:5

Exodus 12:5. Your lamb shall be without blemish— It was an indispensable qualification in sacrifices, to be perfect, as the Hebrew has it, or without blemish. See Leviticus 20:24. This was not peculiar to the sacrifices offered to the true God. The heathens were no less careful in this respect. As the paschal lamb was a lively and expressive type of Jesus Christ, there is no doubt but the perfection of that Lamb of God was signified by this circumstance, 1Pe 1:19 while, at the same time, that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:6

Exodus 12:6. And ye shall keep it up, &c.— Keep it up apart from the flock. And the whole assembly shall kill it, i.e. any person of the whole assembly of Israel shall have liberty to kill it: the slaying of the passover was not appropriated to the priesthood, as the offering of the blood was. See Leviticus 2:5. It was to be killed in the evening; according to the Hebrew, between the two evenings. The first evening with the Hebrews, or, as we call it, afternoon, was calculated from the time... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:7

Exodus 12:7. They shall take of the blood, &c.— It appears, from Exo 12:22 that this ceremony was to be performed by dipping a bunch of hyssop into the blood of the lamb. It was peculiar to this first passover: and the reason of it is given in the 23rd verse. In after-times, when the children of Israel were settled, the passover was to be sacrificed only in the appointed place of public worship, when the blood was sprinkled by the priest on the altar, Deuteronomy 5:7. Leviticus 17:6. 2... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:8

Exodus 12:8. They shall eat the flesh in that night— That is to say, the night following the fourteenth, and beginning the fifteenth day; for we must not forget, that the Hebrew day commenced from the setting of the sun. The lamb was to be sacrificed the fourteenth, between three and six; but it was eaten on the fifteenth, i.e. in the beginning of it: whence the passover is said to be offered sometimes on the fourteenth, and sometimes on the fifteenth day: a remark, which may serve to reconcile... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:9

Exodus 12:9. Eat not of it raw, &c.— Particular caution is here given, that the lamb should be roasted with fire; that he should be roasted whole: his head, with his legs, and all which pertains to him. It was not to be eaten raw; that is rare, or half-roasted: it was to be thoroughly done, none of the blood remaining in it; in opposition (as Spencer thinks) to what the Egyptians did in the worship of Bacchus, i.e. Osiris, when they ate raw flesh: nor sodden with water, as they used in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:10

Exodus 12:10. Ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning— If the guests were not sufficient to eat up the whole lamb, what remained in the morning was then to be consumed in the fire. The verse might be rendered, ye shall let nothing it remain until the morning; but if any shall happen to remain, ye shall burn it with fire: an order, which seems to have been given, to prevent things sacred from being corrupted, or being esteemed as common: and, probably, in opposition to the practices... 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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:4

4. if the household be too little for the lamb, &c.—It appears from JOSEPHUS that ten persons were required to make up the proper paschal communion. every man according to his eating—It is said that the quantity eaten of the paschal lamb, by each individual, was about the size of an olive. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:5

5. lamb . . . without blemish—The smallest deformity or defect made a lamb unfit for sacrifice—a type of Christ (Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:19). a male of the first year—Christ in the prime of life. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:7

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:10

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

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:4

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:5

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