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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Exodus 12:6

Ye shall keep it up Keep it apart from the rest of the flock. The whole assembly, shall kill it That is, any man of the whole assembly might kill it. For slaying the passover was not appropriated to the priests.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 12:6. _YE SHALL KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY_] The lamb or kid was to be taken from the flock on the _tenth_ day, and kept up and fed by itself till the _fourteenth_ day, when it w...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY - It should be observed that the offering of our Lord on the self-same day is an important point in determining the typical character of the transaction. A remarkable passage...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD, THE PASSOVER AND THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN CHAPTER 12 The Passover Instituted and Kept, the Death of the Firstborn and the Exodus _ 1. The Passover instituted and the feast of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 11:1 TO EXODUS 12:36. 10°. DEATH OF EGYPTIAN FIRSTBORN; PASSOVER AND MAZZOTH (Exodus 11:1 E, Exodus 11:4 J,...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 12:1 P. RULES FOR THE PASSOVER (first set). On the history of the Passover, see pp. 102f. Most ceremonial rules are dated from Sinai or the land of Moab: so these that follow are noted in Exodu...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    II. THE PASCHAL LAMB SLAIN. 6. YE SHALL KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH OF THE MONTH. The Hebrew implies that It was to be kept with great care, which appears to be the meaning of the expression, "ke...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ISRAEL. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "of the sons of Israel". KILL. Hebrew. _shahat._ See App-43. IN THE EVENING. Hebrew b...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 77 THE PASSOVER 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 f...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND YE SHALL KEEP IT UP, &C.— Keep it up apart from the flock. _And the whole assembly shall kill it, i.e. any person_ of the whole assembly of Israel shall have liberty to kill it: the slaying of the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 12 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES AND AAR-ON IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT, SAYING, (2) THIS MONTH SHALL BE UNTO YOU THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS; IT SHALL BE THE FIRST MONTH OF THE...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND YE SHALL KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME MONTH: AND THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL SHALL KILL IT IN THE EVENING._ Ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day o...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:6 congregation (d-16) See Note a....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. THE TENTH PLAGUE, AND THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL 1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative, and...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY] This is to ensure that no blemish shall pass undetected. IN THE EVENING] lit. 'between the evenings,' i.e. probably between sunset and darkness. Darkness was suppo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 12 THE *PASSOVER – VERSES 1-28 PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPECIAL MEAL – VE...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE SHALL KEEP IT UP. — Heb., _ye shall have it in custody:_ separate it, _i.e.,_ from the flock, and keep it in or near your house for four days. During this time it could be carefully and thoroughly...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֤ה לָכֶם֙ לְ מִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת עַ֣ד אַרְבָּע

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XII. _ THE PASSOVER._ Exodus 12:1. We have now reached the birthday of the great Hebrew nation, and with it the first national institution, the feast of passover, which is also the first sa...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PASSOVER LAMB AND ITS SPRINKLED BLOOD Exodus 12:1 Henceforth, for Israel, there was to be a new beginning of the year. We should date our birthdays not from the cradle, but from the Cross. The P...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    While the subjects necessarily intermingle at this point, we turn from the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. As thes...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the (e) whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (e) Every one his house....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Sacrifice, not simply kill, as the Protestants would have it. (Worthington) --- Evening. Hebrew, "between the two evenings," or "suns," according to the Chaldean, alluding to the sun when it declines...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The whole congregation being concerned in the Jewish sacrifice, became a striking figure that the whole synagogue of the Jews should engage their hands in the death of Jesus. Luke 22:1. And still more...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND YE SHALL KEEP IT UP UNTIL THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME MONTH,.... In their houses; this may denote the preservation of Christ in his infancy, and to the appointed time of his sufferings and deat...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. Ver. 6. _Until the fourteenth day._] _See Trapp...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The beginning of the yeere is changed. 3 The Passeouer is instituted. 11 The Rite of the Passeouer. 15 Vnleauened bread. 29 The first borne are slaine. 31 The Israelites are driuen out of the l...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, separated from the rest of the flock, in order to keep it from contamination and infection; AND THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGREGATION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ORDINANCES CONCERNING THE PASSOVER...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    B. THE DIVINE ORDINANCE OF THE PASSOVER Exodus 12:1-20 1, 2And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month _shall be_ unto you the beginning of months; it _shall be_ t...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PASSOVER FEAST (vs.1-28) The time finally arrives for the Lord to accomplish a work of amazing power in Egypt in the deliverance of a nation numbering over two million, from the bondage of Egypt....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IN THE EVENING: _ Heb._ between the two evenings...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-20 The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does this is to them the beginning of a new life. God a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YE SHALL KEEP IT UP; separate it from the rest of the flock, and keep it in a safe place; the reasons of which, EXODUS 12:3. THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY; or rather, _every assembly_, to wit, every such society...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altoge...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 12:6 keep H4931 fourteenth H702 H6240 day H3117 month H2320 whole H3605 assembly H6951 congregation H5712 Israel

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 12:1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you._ And for this...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Deliverance for Israel through the Passover. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the shedding of the blood of a divinely...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 12:2. _The first month of the year._ This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 12:1 The people of Israel are called to act obediently so that the Lord will “pass over” them during the tenth plague. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 f...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    FIRST INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. EXPOSITION THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER AND THE REASONS FOR IT.—In the interval allowed by God, according to the precedent of former announced plagues, between t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you (Exodus 12:1-2). Now in a few wee...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    fourteenth Leviticus 23:5 Numbers 9:3 Numbers 28:16 Numbers 28:18...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS IN EXODUS Exodus 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Today we will consider the Cross as it is set forth in the Book of Exodus. Of course, we cannot go into detail, but we will endeavor t...

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