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Exodus 12:11The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Exodus 12:22“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:4Deut 16:1Exod 34:18Exod 23:15Lev 23:5Num 28:16Esth 3:7
Exodus 12:33Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘On the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families —a lamb for each household.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 5:7John 1:29Lev 1:2Lev 5:62 Chr 35:7Exod 12:6Exod 4:30Exod 6:6Gen 22:8Gen 4:4
Exodus 12:44If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people—you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Exodus 12:55Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:13-141 Pet 1:18-19Mal 1:14Mal 1:7-8Deut 17:1Heb 7:26Lev 22:18-24Lev 23:12Lev 1:10Lev 1:3
Exodus 12:66You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:52 Chr 30:15-18Num 28:16Exod 12:18Num 9:1-3Num 9:11Acts 4:27Deut 16:1-6Exod 16:12Ezek 45:21
Exodus 12:77They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:22-23Heb 11:28Heb 9:22Eph 1:71 Pet 1:2Heb 10:14Heb 10:29Heb 9:13-14
Exodus 12:88They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 34:25Deut 16:7Deut 16:3-41 Cor 5:6-8Exod 1:14Exod 13:3Exod 13:7Exod 23:18Isa 53:10John 6:52-57
Exodus 12:99Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:8Deut 16:7Lam 1:13
Exodus 12:1010You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 23:18Exod 34:25Exod 29:34Lev 22:30Deut 16:4-5Lev 7:15-17
Exodus 12:1111This is how you are to eat it—dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord ’s Passover.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:15Exod 12:271 Cor 5:71 Pet 1:13Luke 12:35Deut 16:2-6Exod 12:21Exod 12:43Lev 23:5Matt 26:19-20
Exodus 12:1212‘I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 33:4Ps 82:6Exod 12:23Isa 19:1Jer 43:13Ps 82:1Zeph 2:11Exod 6:2Ezek 12:16John 10:34-35
Exodus 12:1313The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:28Exod 12:231 John 1:7Gen 17:11Josh 2:121 Thess 1:10
Exodus 12:1414‘This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord —you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:21Exod 12:17Exod 12:24Exod 13:9-101 Cor 5:7-8Lev 23:4-5Exod 12:43Deut 16:1Deut 16:11Exod 5:1
Exodus 12:1515For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:3Gen 17:14Exod 23:15Exod 34:18Deut 16:8Num 28:17Num 9:131 Cor 5:7-8Exod 12:19-20Exod 12:8
Exodus 12:1616‘On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat—that alone may be prepared for you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:7-8Num 28:18Exod 16:23Num 28:25Exod 16:29Exod 16:5Exod 20:10Exod 35:2-3Jer 17:21-22Lev 23:2-3
Exodus 12:1717So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your regiments out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:41Exod 13:3Exod 13:8Exod 7:5Num 20:16
Exodus 12:1818In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:15Lev 23:5-8Exod 12:1-2Num 28:16-25
Exodus 12:1919For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast—that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a resident foreigner or one born in the land.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:15Deut 16:3Exod 23:15Exod 12:48Exod 34:18Num 9:131 Cor 5:7-8Exod 12:43
Exodus 12:2020You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Exodus 12:2121Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, “Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:32 Kgs 23:21Ezra 6:20Josh 5:10Mark 14:12-16Num 9:2-52 Chr 30:15-172 Chr 35:5-6Exod 12:11Exod 17:5
Exodus 12:2222Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:28Exod 12:7Num 19:18Ps 51:7Heb 9:1Heb 9:14Heb 9:191 Pet 1:2Heb 12:24Lev 14:6-7
Exodus 12:2323For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 7:3Rev 9:4Heb 11:281 Cor 10:10Exod 12:12-13Ezek 9:62 Sam 24:16Isa 37:36Ezek 9:4Heb 12:24
Exodus 12:2424You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:14Gen 17:8-10
Exodus 12:2525When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:17Exod 3:8Deut 12:8-9Deut 4:5Ps 105:44-45Deut 16:5-9Josh 5:10-12
Exodus 12:2626When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ —Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 13:14-15Deut 32:7Ps 145:4Eph 6:4Isa 38:19Josh 4:21-24Josh 4:6-7Ps 78:3-6Deut 11:19Deut 6:7
Exodus 12:2727then you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord ’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 4:31Exod 12:111 Cor 5:7Exod 12:231 Chr 29:202 Chr 20:182 Chr 29:30Deut 16:2Deut 16:5Exod 34:25
Exodus 12:2828and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:28
Exodus 12:2929It happened at midnight—the Lord attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 78:51Exod 4:23Ps 105:36Ps 135:8Exod 11:4-5Ps 136:10Exod 12:12Num 8:17Exod 13:15Heb 11:28
Exodus 12:3030Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 11:6Amos 5:17Jas 2:13Matt 25:6Prov 21:13
Exodus 12:3131Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 6:1Exod 10:9Exod 3:19-20Exod 8:8Ps 105:38Exod 10:29-11:1Exod 11:8
Exodus 12:3232Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:26Gen 27:34Exod 10:9Exod 8:28Exod 9:28Gen 27:38
Exodus 12:3333The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:38Exod 11:1Gen 20:3Num 17:12-13
Exodus 12:3434So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 8:3
Exodus 12:3535Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them—they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:21-22Exod 11:2-3Gen 15:14Ps 105:37
Exodus 12:3636The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:14Acts 7:10Exod 11:3Exod 3:21-22Ps 105:37Dan 1:9Gen 39:21Acts 2:47Prov 16:7
Exodus 12:3737The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 38:26Num 1:46Num 11:21Num 33:3Num 33:5Gen 47:11Exod 1:11Gen 12:2Gen 15:5Gen 46:3
Exodus 12:3838A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds—a very large number of cattle.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 11:4Zech 8:23
Exodus 12:3939They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast. Because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 11:1Exod 6:1Exod 12:31-33
Exodus 12:4040Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:13Acts 7:6Acts 13:17Gal 3:16-17Gen 12:1-3Heb 11:9
Exodus 12:4141At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 1:7Exod 7:4Hab 2:3John 7:8Dan 9:24Exod 12:17Exod 12:51Exod 3:10Josh 5:14Ps 102:13
Exodus 12:4242It was a night of vigil for the Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the Lord for generations to come.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:1-6Exod 12:14Exod 13:10
Exodus 12:4343The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:48Num 9:14Exod 12:11Eph 2:12Lev 22:10
Exodus 12:4444But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:12-13Gen 17:23
Exodus 12:4545A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 22:10Eph 2:12
Exodus 12:4646It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 19:36Num 9:12John 19:33Eph 2:19-221 Cor 12:12Ps 34:20
Exodus 12:4747The whole community of Israel must observe it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:6Num 9:13Exod 12:3
Exodus 12:4848“When a resident foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land —but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 9:14Col 3:11Gal 3:28Num 15:15-16Exod 12:19Exod 12:43Ezek 47:22Ezek 44:9Gen 17:12
Exodus 12:4949The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the resident foreigner who lives among you.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 15:15-16Num 15:29Lev 24:22Num 9:14Gal 3:28
Exodus 12:5050So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:32Deut 4:1-2Exod 12:41Exod 6:26Exod 7:4John 13:17John 15:14John 2:5Matt 28:20Matt 7:24-25
Exodus 12:5151And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:41Exod 6:26
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