Exodus 12:27
You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
26And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?
28And the children of Israel going forth did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Cross References
Exodus 12:11And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.
Exodus 13:8And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Exodus 34:25Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven: neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 16:5Thou mayst not immolate the phase in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God will give thee:
2 Chronicles 20:18Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell hat on the ground before the Lord, and adored him.
Nehemiah 8:6And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:22-29
The Passover. ( b. c. 1491.) 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the… Read the whole commentary →