Exodus 12:6 - Forerunner Commentary

Exodus 12:6

4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be ^awithout blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

6 Now you shall keep it until the ^afourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

8 Then they shall eat the flesh on that ^anight; ^broasted in fire, with ^cunleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but ^aroasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails.

10 ^aYou shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.

11 And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. ^aIt is the Lord’s Passover.

12 ‘For I ^awill pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: ^cI am the Lord.

13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 ‘So this day shall be to you ^aa memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a ^bfeast ^cby an everlasting ordinance.

15 ^aSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, ^bthat person shall be cut off from Israel.

16 On the first day there shall be ^aa holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you.

Verse Comparison: Exodus 12:6

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American Standard Version
and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.

Amplified® Bible
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall [each] kill [his] lamb in the evening.

Contemporary English Version
Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.

Darby English Version
And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.

Good News Bible
Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
`You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.

New International Version
Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.

New King James Version
Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
'You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it at twilight.

Revised Standard Version
and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.

Young's Literal Translation
`And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

New English Translation
You must care for it¹ until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community² of Israel will kill it around sundown.³

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