It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
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It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
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In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
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In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
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Passages linked to Exodus 12:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- John 19:36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
- Numbers 9:12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
- John 19:33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
- Ephesians 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- Psalms 34:20 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
- 1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
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John 29:36
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten;…
Exo 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Ver. 46. In one house.] To teach them unity; which, indeed, is not anywhere found but in the Church. "My dove is but ore." {Son 6:9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Partly, because they were all obliged not to go…
Partly, because they were all obliged not to go out of the house till the morning, Exo 12:22, and to leave none of it till that time, Exo 12:10; partly, lest it should be either superstitiously or profanely abused; and partly, to signify that Christ and salvation are not to be had out of God’s house or church.
To take out and eat the marrow of it. This was required, partly to mind them of their hasty departure out of Egypt, wherein they had no leisure to break and empty the bones; and principally, that it might be an evident type of the Lord Jesus, in whom this was literally fulfilled, Joh 19:36. The bones were burnt with the other remainders of the lamb.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus did all the children of Israel,.... They slew…
Thus did all the children of Israel,.... They slew a lamb, and roasted and ate it, with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs, and took a bunch of hyssop, and dipped it in the blood, and struck the lintel and the side posts of the doors of their houses: this they did on the night of their deliverance out of Egypt:
as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they; being instructed by them; which is an instance of their ready and cheerful obedience to the divine will, which they were under great obligation to perform, from a grateful sense of the wonderful mercy and favour they now were made partakers of.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 46. In one house shall it be eaten]…
Verse 46. In one house shall it be eaten] In one family, if that be large enough; if not, a neighbouring family might be invited, Ex 12:4.
Thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh] Every family must abide within doors because of the destroying angel, none being permitted to go out of his house till the next day, Ex 12:22.
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Neither shall ye break a bone thereof.] As it was to be eaten in haste, (Ex 12:11), there was no time either to separate the bones, or to break them in order to extract the marrow; and lest they should be tempted to consume time in this way, therefore this ordinance was given. It is very likely that, when the whole lamb was brought to table, they cut off the flesh without even separating any of the large joints, leaving the skeleton, with whatever flesh they could not eat, to be consumed with fire, Ex 12:10. This precept was also given to point out a most remarkable circumstance which 1500 years after was to take place in the crucifixion of the Saviour of mankind, who was the true Paschal Lamb, that Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world; who, though he was crucified as a common malefactor, and it was a universal custom to break the legs of such on the cross, yet so did the providence of God order it that a bone of HIM was not broken. See the fulfilment of this wondrously expressive type, Joh 19:33; Joh 19:36.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain In one house - i. e. “in one company.”…
In one house - i. e. “in one company.” Each lamb was to be entirely consumed by the members of one company, whether they belonged to the same household or not.
Break a bone - The typical significance of this injunction is recognized by John, (see the margin reference.) It is not easy to assign any other satisfactory reason for it. This victim alone was exempt from the general law by which the limbs were ordered to be separated from the body.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 46. Three regulations designed to emphasize the unity of…
46. Three regulations designed to emphasize the unity of the company partaking of each passover (cf. vv. 4, 9; 1Co_10:17): one lamb was always to be eaten in one house; no part of the flesh was to be carried out of the house; and (in dressing the Paschal lamb) no bone in it was to be broken (cf. Num_9:12; also Joh_19:36, Psa_34:20).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (46) Neither shall ye break a bone thereof.—In the…
(46) Neither shall ye break a bone thereof.—In the case of all other victims, the limbs were to be separated from the body. Here the victim was to be roasted whole, and to remain whole, as a symbol of unity, and a type of Him through whom men are brought into unity with each other and with God. (See Joh_19:33-36.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain In one house shall it be eaten. Compare the…
In one house shall it be eaten. Compare the directions in vers. 3-10, which imply this, and see the comment on ver. 10. Neither shall ye break a bone of it. Kalisch thinks that the lamb was a symbol of the unity of the nation, and was therefore not to have any of its bones broken. This view may be a true one, without being exhaustive. It may have been to mark the unity of the Church in Christ that his bones were not broken, and in view especially of that unity, that the type was made to correspond in this particular with the antitype. (see Joh_19:33-36)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:46 do not break any of its bones: The…
12:46 do not break any of its bones: The apostle John makes reference to this instruction regarding the Passover lambs when reporting that Jesus’ legs were not broken on the cross (John 19:36).
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