Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel—The recent events had prepared the Israelitish people for a crisis in their affairs, and they seem to have yielded implicit obedience at this time to Moses. It is observable that, amid all the hurry and bustle of such a departure, their serious attention was to be given to a solemn act of religion.
a lamb for an house—a kid might be taken (Exodus 12:5). The service was to be a domestic one, for the deliverance was to be from an evil threatened to every house in Egypt.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Exodus 12:3:
Exodus 12:1
2 Chronicles 35:6
Psalms 82:1
John 12:12
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