Exodus 12:9

Eat not of it raw, nor soaked or boiled in mayim, but roasted over eish; this includes its rosh with its legs, and with the inner parts thereof.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 basar in that night, roasted over eish, and matzot; and with maror they shall eat it. + 12:8 See Yn 6:53-54 where Moshiach alludes to this verse and Isa 53:7 .

10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the boker; and that which remaineth of it until the boker ye shall burn with eish.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:7And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Hashem Eloheicha shall choose; and thou shalt turn back in the boker, and go unto thy oholim.

Lamentations 1:13From above hath He sent eish 1 into my atzamot (bones), and it prevaileth against them; 1 He hath spread a net for my feet, 1 He hath turned me back; 1 He hath made me desolate and kol hayom (ever) languishing. 1

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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