Exodus 12

Exodus 12:1

And the LORD spake unto Moses, &c.

Now, before the last plague, the Lord had spoken to Moses, &c.

Exodus 12:2

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months.

This month shall be unto you, both a month of principal account, as also the first in number in all your religious computations; so that from this, you shall count the year to begin.

Her infirmity.

That sickness, which, in ordinary course, is every month incident to her sex.

Exodus 12:3

In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb.

Let every master of a family, within his several household, take unto him a lamb.

Exodus 12:5

Ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

Ye shall celebrate your passover for this once, in respect of those straits, wherein you are, either with a lamb or a kid, whether can most commodiously be provided.

Exodus 12:6

And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

Every one of the congregation, whom it concerns, shall kill the lamb, betwixt the ninth and eleventh hour of the day.

Exodus 12:11

And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded.

And thus shall you eat it, for this first time, for the greater haste; with your loins girded.

Exodus 12:15

That soul shall be cut off from Israel.

That person shall be separated from the communion of the Church, and lie open unto bodily judgments.

Exodus 12:36

And they spoiled the Egyptians.

So they left the Egyptians destitute of their jewels and rich furnitures; who, by their own consent and will, parted with these things, to hire the Israelites unto a more speedy haste, for their own safeguard.

Exodus 12:43

There shall no stranger eat thereof.

None, that is a stranger in religion, shall eat of it.