Exodus 12:1
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
In Context
2Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.
Cross References
Exodus 11:2So go now and give orders to the people that every man and every woman is to get from his or her neighbour ornaments of silver and of gold.
Exodus 14:1And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 9:2Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.
Numbers 9:5So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
Ezekiel 45:21In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:1
This chapter gives an account of one of the most memorable ordinances, and one of the most memorable providences, of all that are recorded in the Old Testament. I. Not one of all the ordinances of the Jewish church was more eminent than that of the passover, nor is any one more frequently mentioned in the New Testament; and we have here an account of the institution to it. The ordinance consisted of three parts:—1. The killing and eating of the paschal lamb, ver. 1-6 , 8-11 . 2. The sprinkling of the blood upon… Read the whole commentary →