Speak to the community leadership of Israel community leadership of Israel Heb. kol ‘adat yisra’el, lit. “whole community of Israel,” which here denotes the part (“leadership”) that acts on behalf of the whole (“community”). See the Dictionary under ‘edah. and say that on the tenth of this month each of them shall take a lamb lamb Or “kid.” Heb. seh means either “sheep” or “goat”; cf. v. 5. to a family, a lamb to a household.
But if the household is too small for a lamb, let it share one with a neighbor who dwells nearby, in proportion to the number of persons: you shall contribute for the lamb according to what each household will eat.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואםימעט
176
הבית
417
מהיות
461
משה
345
ולקח
144
הוא
12
ושכנו
382
הקרב
307
אלביתו
449
במכסת
522
נפשת
830
איש
311
לפי
120
אכלו
57
תכסו
486
עלהשה
410
Exodus 12:5
Gematria: 2758
שהתמיםזכרבןשנהיהיהלכםמןהכבשיםומןהעזיםתקחו
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
You shall keep watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month; and all the assembled congregation of the Israelites shall slaughter it at twilight.
This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly: it is a passover offering passover offering Or “protective offering”; Heb. pesaḥ. to יהוה.
For that night I will go through the land of Egypt and strike down every [male] first-born in the land of Egypt, both human and beast; and I will mete out punishments to all the gods of Egypt, I יהוה.
And the blood on the houses where you are staying shall be a sign for you: when I see the blood I will pass over pass over Or “protect”; cf. v. 11 and note there. you, so that no plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be to you one of remembrance: you shall celebrate it as a festival to יהוה throughout the ages; you shall celebrate it as an institution for all time.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the very first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
You shall celebrate a sacred occasion on the first day, and a sacred occasion on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them; only what every person is to eat, that alone may be prepared for you.
You shall observe the [Feast of] Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day throughout the ages as an institution for all time.
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
No leaven shall be found in your houses for seven days. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person—whether a stranger or a citizen of the country—shall be cut off from the community of Israel.
Word-by-Word Analysis
שבעת
772
ימים
100
שאר
501
לא
31
ימצא
141
בבתיכם
474
כי
30
כלאכל
101
מחמצת
578
ונכרתה
681
הנפש
435
ההוא
17
מעדת
514
ישראל
541
בגר
205
ובאזרח
224
הארץ
296
Exodus 12:20
Gematria: 3059
כלמחמצתלאתאכלובכלמושבתיכםתאכלומצותפ
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall eat unleavened bread.
Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts. None of you shall go outside the door of your house until morning.
For יהוה, when going through to smite the Egyptians, will see the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, and יהוה will pass over pass over See note at v. 13. the door and not let the Destroyer enter and smite your home.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ועבר
278
יהוה
26
לנגף
163
אתמצרים
781
וראה
212
אתהדם
450
עלהמשקוף
631
ועל
106
שתי
710
המזוזת
465
ופסח
154
יהוה
26
עלהפתח
593
ולא
37
יתן
460
המשחית
763
לבא
33
אלבתיכם
503
לנגף
163
Exodus 12:24
Gematria: 2141
ושמרתםאתהדברהזהלחקלךולבניךעדעולם
“You shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants.
you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to יהוה, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when smiting the Egyptians, but saved our houses.’ Those assembled then bowed low in homage.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואמרתם
687
זבחפסח
165
הוא
12
ליהוה
56
אשר
501
פסח
148
עלבתי
512
בניישראל
603
במצרים
382
בנגפו
141
אתמצרים
781
ואתבתינו
875
הציל
135
ויקד
120
העם
115
וישתחוו
736
Exodus 12:28
Gematria: 3229
וילכוויעשובניישראלכאשרצוהיהוהאתמשהואהרןכןעשוס
And the Israelites went and did so; just as יהוה had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
In the middle of the night יהוה struck down all the [male] first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
And Pharaoh arose in the night, with all his courtiers and all the Egyptians—because there was a loud cry in Egypt; for there was no house where there was not someone dead.
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had taken out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, since they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאפו
103
אתהבצק
598
אשר
501
הוציאו
118
ממצרים
420
עגת
473
מצות
536
כי
30
לא
31
חמץ
138
כיגרשו
539
ממצרים
420
ולא
37
יכלו
66
להתמהמה
525
וגםצדה
148
לאעשו
407
להם
75
Exodus 12:40
Gematria: 4274
ומושבבניישראלאשרישבובמצריםשלשיםשנהוארבעמאותשנה
The length of time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years;
That was for יהוה a night of vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt; that same night is יהוה’s, one of vigil for all the children of Israel throughout the ages.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ליל
70
שמרים
590
הוא
12
ליהוה
56
להוציאם
182
מארץ
331
מצרים
380
הואהלילה
92
הזה
17
ליהוה
56
שמרים
590
לכלבני
142
ישראל
541
לדרתםפ
754
Exodus 12:43
Gematria: 2462
ויאמריהוהאלמשהואהרןזאתחקתהפסחכלבןנכרלאיאכלבו
יהוה said to Moses and Aaron: This is the law of the passover offering: No foreigner shall eat of it.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
אלמשה
376
ואהרן
262
זאת
408
חקת
508
הפסח
153
כלבןנכר
372
לאיאכל
92
בו
8
Exodus 12:44
Gematria: 2158
וכלעבדאישמקנתכסףומלתהאתואזיאכלבו
But any householder’s householder’s NJPS “a man [has bought]”; trad. “man’s.” See the Dictionary under ’ish. purchased male slave may eat of it once he has been circumcised.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וכלעבד
132
איש
311
מקנתכסף
750
ומלתה
481
אתו
407
אז
8
יאכל
61
בו
8
Exodus 12:45
Gematria: 1344
תושבושכירלאיאכלבו
No bound or hired laborer shall eat of it.
Word-by-Word Analysis
תושב
708
ושכיר
536
לאיאכל
92
בו
8
Exodus 12:46
Gematria: 3392
בביתאחדיאכללאתוציאמןהביתמןהבשרחוצהועצםלאתשברובו
It shall be eaten in one house: you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house; nor shall you break a bone of it.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בבית
414
אחד
13
יאכל
61
לאתוציא
538
מןהבית
507
מןהבשר
597
חוצה
109
ועצם
206
לא
31
תשברובו
916
Cross-ReferencesPassover Lamb - Type of Christ
John 19:36— A bone of him shall not be broken
Psalm 34:20— He keepeth all his bones
Numbers 9:12— They shall leave none of it
1 Corinthians 5:7— Christ our passover is sacrificed
If a male stranger who dwells with you would offer the passover to יהוה, all his males must be circumcised; then he shall be admitted to offer it; he shall then be as a citizen of the country. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וכייגור
255
אתך
421
גר
203
ועשה
381
פסח
148
ליהוה
56
המול
81
לו
36
כלזכר
277
ואז
14
יקרב
312
לעשתו
806
והיה
26
כאזרח
236
הארץ
296
וכלערל
356
לאיאכל
92
בו
8
Exodus 12:49
Gematria: 2231
תורהאחתיהיהלאזרחולגרהגרבתוככם
There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you.
Word-by-Word Analysis
תורה
611
אחת
409
יהיה
30
לאזרח
246
ולגר
239
הגר
208
בתוככם
488
Exodus 12:50
Gematria: 3608
ויעשוכלבניישראלכאשרצוהיהוהאתמשהואתאהרןכןעשוס
And all the Israelites did so; as יהוה had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.