Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Exodus 12:3-11
DISCOURSE: 77THE PASSOVERExodus 12:3-11. 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: and if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it, according to the number of the souls: every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 12:3-13
CRITICAL NOTES.—Exodus 12:3. The house of their fathers.] More exactly: “a father’s house.” The designation naturally imports “family” in the larger sense of “family of families,” the entire group formed by the union of grown-up sons and daughters with their children under the ancestral roof. Only in the event of this group being too small for a lamb, were mere neighbours to unite.—Exodus 12:6. Whole assembly of the congregation.] Here, at the very outset of Hebrew national history, is an... read more