Exodus 12:21
What does Exodus 12:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Exodus 12:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Then 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel, and saith unto them, `Draw out and take for yourselves <FI>from<Fi> the flock, for your families, and slaughter the passover-sacrifice;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover.
Context
v.20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
v.21This passage
v.22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:16
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
- Luke 22:7
And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4
and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.
- Mark 14:12
And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the passover, his disciples say unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?
- Numbers 9:2
Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.
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