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The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:43-51
The Law of the Passover. I. WHAT GOD REQUIRES IN ITS OBSERVANCE. 1. God demands purity of communion. No stranger is to cat of it. 2. It is not to be carried out from the midst of the household of faith. The peace and fe…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:44
Every man's servant that is bought for money. Or "every man's slave." The Mosaic Law found servitude existing, and left it existing, only guarding against its extreme abuses (Exodus 21:20-27). It put no check on the tra…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:45
A foreigner. Literally "a so-journer"—i.e; a foreigner who is merely passing through the land, or staying for a time, without intending to become a permanent resident. The Septuagint πάροικος well expresses the meaning…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:46
In one house shall it be eaten. Compare the directions in Exodus 12:3-10, which imply this, and see the comment on Exodus 12:10. Neither shall ye break a bone of it. Kalisch thinks that the lamb was a symbol of the unit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:47
All the congregation … shall keep it. Rather "shall sacrifice it." (Compare Exodus 12:6.) Exodus 12:48, Exodus 12:49 And when a stranger, etc. Here we have the positive ordinance corresponding to the implied permission…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:50
Thus did all the children of Israel—i.e; the Israelites, at their first passover, acted in accordance with these precepts, especially in admitting to the feast all circumcised persons, whether natives or foreigners, and…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 12:51
This verse should be transferred to the commencement of the next chapter, which should run as follows:—"And it came to pass—on the self-same day that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by t…
Matthew Henry on Exodus 13:1-10
In remembrance of the destruction of the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast, and the deliverance of the Israelites out of bondage, the first-born males of the Israelites were set apart to the Lord. By this wa…
The Sanctification of the Firstborn. (b. c. 1491.)
THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE FIRSTBORN. (B. C. 1491.) Care is here taken to perpetuate the remembrance, I. Of the preservation of Israel's firstborn, when the firstborn of the Egyptians were slain. In memory of that distin…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:1-16
The Dedication and Redemption of the First-born. In commemoration of the great mercy whereby their first-born sons were spared, when all those of the Egyptians were slain, God required the Israelites to do two things:—…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:1-16
EXPOSITION SANCTIFICATION OF THE FIRSTBORN. In connection with the deliverance from death of the Israelite first-born by the blood of the lamb, and still further to fix the remembrance of the historical facts in the min…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:1
On the true grammatical nexus of this verse, see note on Exodus 12:51. The injunctions of Exodus 12:2, and probably those of 3-15—were given to Moses on the very day of the setting-forth, most likely, at Succoth in the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:2
Sanctify unto me. Not by any positive ceremony, but by regarding it as "set apart unto the Lord" (Exodus 13:12)—made over to him, that is, as his own. All the first-born. The Hebrew word used is masculine, and by its pr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:3-16
How to declare God's salvation. I. BY THE REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MERCIES. 1. "Remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt." 2. The celebration of the Passover awoke inquiry among those who had not witnessed God's deed…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:3
And Moses said. Without relating the directions given to Moses any further, the author passes to the directions given by him. He thus, here and elsewhere, avoids unnecessary repetition. Remember this day. The injunction…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:3-16
The rightful use of Church ordinances. Church ordinances are The benefits derivable from them depend mainly upon their rightful use. We learn from the instructions hero given to the Israelites by Moses, that their right…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:3-11
Remember this day. The exhortation in these verses may very well be applied to Christians. They are to remember the fact add the might of their redemption. They are to commemorate it by observance of appointed ordinance…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:4
In the month Abib. The name of the month had not been previously mentioned. Some have derived it from the Egyptian Epiphi. As, however, ab means "greenness" in Hebrew, and abib "green ears of corn," while ibba meant "fr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:5
The land of the Canaanites, etc. Compare Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17. The six nations of these passages are reduced here to five by the omission of the Perizzites, one of the less important tribes. Which he sware unto thy f…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:6
Seven days. Compare Exodus 12:15. In the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. The feast lasted during the whole of the seven days, but the first day and the last were to be kept especially holy. (See Exodus 12:16;…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:7
Here again the injunctions are mere repetitious of commands already given in Exodus 12:1-51. (See Exodus 12:15 and Exodus 12:19.) Repetition was no doubt had recourse to in order to deepen the impression.
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:8
And thou shalt shew thy son. Repeated from Exodus 12:26, Exodus 12:27.
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:9
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes. There can be no doubt that the Jewish system of tephillin, or "phylacteries," grew mainly out of this passage, and was intended…
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 13:10
This ordinance. The ordinance of unleavened bread. See Exodus 12:14, Exodus 12:24.