Exodus 12:2-3

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 12:1-2

Exodus 12:1-2The beginning of months.A new startI. The idea of a new start is naturally attractive to all of us. We are fatigued, we are dissatisfied, and justly so, with the time past of our lives. We long for a gift of amnesty and oblivion.II. There are senses in which this is impossible. The continuity of life cannot be broken. There is a continuity, a unity, an identity, which annihilation only could destroy.III. “The beginning of months” is made so by an exodus. Redemption is the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 12:3-4

Exodus 12:3-4If the household be too little for the lamb.Too little for the lambI. The text reminds us of a primary privilege.1. That each man of Israel ate the passover for himself; “every man according to his eating.” So do we feed upon Jesus, each one as his appetite, capacity, and strength enable him to do.2. But this same delicious fare should be enjoyed by all the family--“a lamb for an house.” Oh, that each of the parents and all the children and servants may be partakers of Christ!II.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 12:2

Exo 12:2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you. Ver. 2. This month. ] Called Abib in Exodus 13:4 ; with us called March or April; when the day lengthening, and the sun ascending, each thing begins to revive. To show, saith one, that by the true Passover, Christ Jesus, not only is our time and all other things sanctified, but also that we should in recent remembrance of that benefit of our redemption, all our days and years be... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 12:3

Exo 12:3 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 the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an house: Ver. 3. In the tenth day. ] The paschal lamb was taken up the tenth day, but not sacrificed till the fourteenth, that they might "so kill the passover" as first to "sanctify themselves and prepare their brethren." 2Ch 35:6 For which cause also it was a received tradition among the Jews, that... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 12:2

am 2513, bc 1491, An, Exod, Isr, 1, Abib or Nisan, Exodus 13:4, Exodus 23:15, Exodus 34:18, Leviticus 23:5, Numbers 28:16, Deuteronomy 16:1, Esther 3:7 Reciprocal: Exodus 11:2 - borrow Exodus 19:1 - the third Exodus 40:2 - the first month Numbers 9:11 - fourteenth Numbers 33:3 - in the first Joshua 4:19 - first month 2 Chronicles 29:17 - the sixteenth Ezekiel 45:18 - In the first month read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 12:3

Speak ye: Exodus 4:30, Exodus 6:6, Exodus 14:15, Exodus 20:19, Leviticus 1:2 in the tenth: Exodus 12:6, John 12:1, John 12:12 take to: Genesis 4:4, Genesis 22:8, 1 Samuel 7:9, John 1:29, John 1:36, 1 Corinthians 5:7, Revelation 5:6-1 Chronicles :, Revelation 7:9-2 Chronicles :, Revelation 13:8 lamb: or, kid, The word seh means the young of both sheep and goats, and may be indifferently rendered either lamb or kid. It is evident from Exodus 12:5, that the Hebrews might take either; but they... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Exodus 12:2

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.This shall be to you the beginning of months — They had hitherto begun their year from the middle of September, but hence-forward they were to begin it from the middle of March, at least in all their ecclesiastical computations. We may suppose that while Moses was bringing the ten plagues upon the Egyptians, he was directing the Israelites to prepare for their departure at an hour's warning.... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Exodus 12:3

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 the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:Take every man a lamb — In each of their families, or two or three families, if they were small, join for a lamb. The lamb was to be got ready four days before. and that afternoon they went, they were to kill it, ( Exodus 12:6,) as a sacrifice, not strictly, for it was not offered upon the altar, but as a... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:1-30

THE TEN PLAGUES, Exodus 7:8 to Exodus 12:30. Moses and Aaron now stand before Pharaoh as ministers of judgment, and the conflict opens between Jehovah and the gods of Egypt. The first contest between the messengers of Jehovah and the magicians, or enchanters, who are regarded as the servants of the false gods, given in Exodus 7:8-13, is properly the opening scene of the struggle, and is therefore here included in the section with it. Several general observations on the whole subject are most... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 12:2

2. This month (Abib or Nisan) shall be unto you the beginning ( head) of months… first month of the year Hitherto the year had commenced with the month Tisri, (or September,) but henceforth the year was to be reckoned from Abib, the month of Israel’s birth . Abib signifies “an ear of grain;” it was the month when barley ripened, corresponding with our close of March and beginning of April . The Hebrew months were lunar, and Abib was the month commencing with the new moon just... read more