Hebrews 11:28

Through faith Rather, "by faith," as before.

he kept the passover Lit. "he hath made," or "instituted." Another of the author's characteristic tenses (see Hebrews 11:17).

and the sprinkling of blood Exodus 12:21-23. The "faith" consisted primarily in believing the promises and obeying the command of God, and secondarily, we may believe, in regarding the sprinkled blood as in some way typical of a better propitiation (Romans 3:25). The word for sprinkling is not rantismos, as in Hebrews 12:24, but πρόσχυσις, which is found here only ("effusion"), but is derived from the verb used in Leviticus 1:5 (LXX.).

he that destroyed The term is derived from the LXX. The Hebrew (Exodus 12:23) has mashchîth"destruction." Comp. 1Ch 21:15; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Sir 48:21.