Exodus 12:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:7-13

Christ his people's salvation and strength. I. THE MEANS OF SAFETY , Exodus 12:7-13 ). 1 . They took the blood and struck it on the door posts and the lintel. We must appropriate Christ's atonement. We must say by faith, "he died for me." 2 . They passed within the blood-stained portals. Christ's blood must stand between us and condemnation, between us and sin. Our safety lies in setting that between oar soul and them. The realising of Christ's death for our sins is,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:8

Roast with firs . The meat of sacrificial meals was commonly boiled by the Hebrews ( 1 Samuel 2:14 , 1 Samuel 2:15 ). The command to roast the Paschal lamb is accounted for: 1 . By its being a simpler and quicker process than boiling; 2 . By a special sanctity being regarded as attaching to fire; 3 . By the difficulty of cooking the animal whole unless it were roasted. Justin Martyr's statement that for roasting two wooden spits were required, placed at right angles the one... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:8

In that night - The night is thus clearly distinguished from the evening when the lamb was slain. It was slain before sunset, on the 14th, and eaten after sunset, the beginning of the 15th.With fire - Among various reasons given for this injunction the most probable and satisfactory seems to be the special sanctity attached to fire from the first institution of sacrifice (compare Genesis 4:4).And unleavened bread - On account of the hasty departure, allowing no time for the process of... 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

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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:7-11

"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

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:8

8. roast with fire—for the sake of expedition; and this difference was always observed between the cooking of the paschal lamb and the other offerings ( :-). unleavened bread—also for the sake of despatch (Deuteronomy 16:3), but as a kind of corruption (Deuteronomy 16:3- :) there seems to have been a typical meaning under it (Deuteronomy 16:3- :). bitter herbs—literally, "bitters"—to remind the Israelites of their affliction in Egypt, and morally of the trials to which God's people are subject... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:1-14

Directions for the Passover 12:1-14The Jews called their first month Abib (Exodus 12:2). After the Babylonian captivity they renamed it Nisan (Nehemiah 2:1; Esther 3:7). It corresponds to our March-April. Abib means "ear-month" referring to the month when the grain was in the ear."The reference to the Passover month as the ’lead month,’ ’the first of the year’s months’ is best understood as a double entendre. On the one hand, the statement may be connected with an annual calendar, but on the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 12:1-16

C. God’s redemption of His people 12:1-13:16Scholars differ in their opinions as to when Israel actually became a nation. Many have made a strong case for commencing national existence with the institution of the Passover, which this section records. The proper translation of the Hebrew word pasah is really "hover over" rather than "pass over." [Note: Meredith G. Kline, "The Feast of Cover-over," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37:4 (December 1994):497-510.] ". . . properly... read more

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