All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Exodus 12:47 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 12:6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- Numbers 9:13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Exodus 12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep…
Exo 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Ver. 47. Shall keep it.] Or perish for their neglect. Aut faciendum, aut patiendum; either men must do it, or die for it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it came to pass the selfsame day,.... That…
And it came to pass the selfsame day,.... That the above ordinance was instituted and celebrated in the night:
that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by their armies; by their several tribes, which were like so many armies, marching in large numbers, and with great order and regularity; see Gill on Exo 7:4.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain All the congregation of Israel must keep it -…
All the congregation of Israel must keep it - Though it was observed in families apart, yet it is looked upon as the act of the whole congregation. And so the new testament passover, the Lord's supper, ought not to be neglected by any that are capable of celebrating it.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 47. All Israelites are to keep the Passover (cf.…
47. All Israelites are to keep the Passover (cf. Num_9:13).
hold it] Heb. do it: not in the sacrif. sense noticed on Exo_10:25, but in that of hold, keep: so v. 48, Num_9:2-6, Deu_16:1 al., and ποιεῖν Mat_26:18, Heb_11:28; cf. with pilgrimage, ch. Exo_34:22, Deu_16:10; Deu_16:13, 1Ki_8:65, and with Sabbath, ch. Exo_31:16, Deu_5:15.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain All the congregation shall keep it. Rather "shall sacrifice…
All the congregation shall keep it. Rather "shall sacrifice it." (Compare ver. 6.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 all his male relatives must be circumcised
all his male relatives must be circumcised
This can be stated in active form. AT: "someone must circumcise all his male relatives" (See: Active or Passive)
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the people who were born in the land
Here the word "land" refers to Canaan. The expression "born in the land" means a person who is a native Israelite. AT: "those who are Israelites by birth" (See: Idiom)
no uncircumcised person may eat
This can be stated in positive terms. AT: "only circumcised people may eat" (See: Double Negatives)
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Passover
circumcise
circumcise
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