Exodus 12:9

Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with the inwards of it.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

In Context

8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, but that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:7And thou shall roast and eat it in the place which LORD thy God shall choose, and thou shall turn in the morning, and go to thy tents.

Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:2-21

The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his… Read the whole commentary →

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