Exodus 12:7

And they shall take of the blood, and shall put it on the two doorposts, and on the lintel, in the houses in whichsoever they shall eat them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

In Context

6And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it toward evening.

8And they shall eat the flesh in this night roast with fire, and they shall eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:13And the blood shall be for a sign to you on the houses in which ye are, and I will see the blood, and will protect you, and there shall not be on you the plague of destruction, when I smite in the land of Egypt.

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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