Exodus 12:18-36

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:18

Until the one and twentieth day, inclusively. For otherwise they were obliged to eat unleavened bread eight days, viz. on the day of the passover, Exodus 12:8, and seven days after, which is strictly and properly called the feast of unleavened bread, because in them they were tied to that ceremony only, except the two days of a holy convocation. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:19

A stranger, to wit, a proselyte; for strangers unconverted to the Jewish religion were not obliged nor admitted to the celebration of the passover or feast of unleavened bread. Though I see no inconvenience, if all strangers, though heathens, were forbidden to have or use any unleavened bread at that time, lest the Jews who conversed with them might be tempted to desire or partake of it with them. In the land, to wit, of Canaan, which I have promised to you, and to which I am now leading you,... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:22

A bunch of hyssop; so the Hebrew word is rightly rendered, as appears from Hebrews 9:19. The door of his house, i.e. of the house wherein he did eat the passover, which ofttimes was his neighbour’s house: see Exodus 12:4. Until the morning; till the beginning of the morning after midnight, and after the slaughter of the Egyptians’ first-born; which may reconcile those scriptures that seem to contradict one another, while some affirm they went out of Egypt by night, and others by day, for they... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:23

Will not suffer, Heb. not give him license or commission. The destroyer, i.e. the destroying angel, which whether it were a good or bad angel is not agreed, nor is it necessary to determine. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:24

This thing, viz. the substance of the thing, the passover and feast of unleavened bread, though not all the rites and ceremonies, whereof divers were peculiar to the first time. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:25

To the land, viz. of Canaan, as Exodus 12:19. For in the wilderness they kept this feast but once, and that by God’s particular direction, Numbers 9:2. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:26

Or, part of Divine worship. God expects this even from the Jewish children, and much more from Christian men, that they should inquire and understand what is said or done in the public worship or service of God, and therefore not to rest in dumb signs, whereof they neither inquire nor know the meaning, or in the service of God in a language which they understand not. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:27

The passover was both a sacrifice, as it was offered to God, as it appears from Exodus 23:18; Exodus 34:25; Numbers 9:7,Numbers 9:13; Deuteronomy 16:2,Deuteronomy 16:5; and because there was in it the shedding and sprinkling of blood, wherein the essence of a sacrifice consists, 2 Chronicles 30:16; 2 Chronicles 35:11,2 Chronicles 35:13; and also a sacrament, as it was received and eaten by men. The people bowed the head, in token of their thankful acknowledgment of God’s favours, and of their... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:28

They killed and did eat the paschal lamb in such manner as God prescribed. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:29

At midnight; a great aggravation of the plague; for then darkness itself strikes men with horror, and makes any calamity more terrible; then they were. asleep and secure, and least expected such a stroke. All the first-born, both of man and beast, whether male or female. Some extend it to all that were first-born; and so many persons might be killed in one house, as both father and mother, and several sons, which might be the first-born by several mothers, and sons’ sons or daughters, &c.... read more

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