出埃及记 12:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們要告訴以色列全體會眾說：本月初十，他們各人要按著父家取羊羔，一家一隻。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 吩 咐 以 色 列 全 会 众 说 ： 本 月 初 十 日 ， 各 人 要 按 着 父 家 取 羊 羔 ， 一 家 一 只 。

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ² "This month will be the beginning of months, the first month of the year for you. ³ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must get one lamb for the people in his house. ⁴ If there are not enough people in his house to eat a whole lamb, he must share it with his closest neighbor, considering the number of people. There must be enough lamb for everyone to eat. ⁵ The lamb must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat. ⁶ Take care of the animals until the fourteenth day of the month. On that day all the people of the community of Israel will kill them in the evening before dark. ⁷ The people must take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸ On this night they must roast the lamb over a fire. They must eat it with bitter herbs and bread made without yeast. ⁹ Do not eat the lamb raw or boiled in water. Roast the whole lamb over a fire—with its head, legs, and inner organs. ¹⁰ You must not leave any of it until morning, but if any of it is left over until morning, you must burn it with fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Speak ye: Exodus 4:30, Exodus 6:6, Exodus 14:15, Exodus 20:19, Leviticus 1:2

in the tenth: Exodus 12:6, John 12:1, John 12:12

take to: Genesis 4:4, Genesis 22:8, 1 Samuel 7:9, John 1:29, John 1:36, 1 Corinthians 5:7, Revelation 5:6-13, Revelation 7:9-14, Revelation 13:8

lamb: or, kid, The word seh means the young of both sheep and goats, and may be indifferently rendered either lamb or kid. It is evident from Exodus 12:5, that the Hebrews might take either; but they generally preferred a lamb, from being of a more gentle nature. Leviticus 5:6, Numbers 15:11, 2 Chronicles 35:7

an house: The Israelites were divided into twelve tribes, these tribes into families, the families into houses, and the houses into particular persons. Numbers 1:1-54, Joshua 7:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:7 - lamb Exodus 12:21 - and take Exodus 12:47 - All the Exodus 13:13 - lamb Leviticus 4:32 - a lamb Joshua 4:19 - first month 2 Kings 23:21 - as it is written 2 Chronicles 30:1 - to keep Hebrews 11:28 - he kept

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
Abraham's children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 27:29
May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. May you be master over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. May everyone who curses you be cursed, and may everyone who blesses you be blessed."

Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Genesis 30:27
Laban said to him, "If I have pleased you, please stay. I know the Lord has blessed me because of you.

Genesis 30:30
When I came, you had little, but now you have much. Every time I did something for you, the Lord blessed you. But when will I be able to do something for my own family?"

Genesis 39:5
When Joseph was put in charge of the house and everything Potiphar owned, the Lord blessed the people in Potiphar's house because of Joseph. And the Lord blessed everything that belonged to Potiphar, both in the house and in the field.

Exodus 23:22
If you listen carefully to all he says and do everything that I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies. I will fight all who fight against you.

Numbers 24:9
Like a lion, they lie waiting to attack; like a lioness, no one would be brave enough to wake them. Anyone who blesses you will be blessed, and anyone who curses you will be cursed."

Psalms 72:17
Let the king be famous forever; let him be remembered as long as the sun shines. Let the nations be blessed because of him, and may they all bless him.

Matthew 25:40
"Then the King will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, anything you did for even the least of my people here, you also did for me.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,.... That is, to the elders of the people, and heads of families; unless we can suppose that they had been gradually gathered, and were now gathered together in a body by the direction of Moses, by whom they were assured that their departure was at hand; and the rather it may be thought that so it was, since the following order concerned the whole and every individual:

saying, in the tenth [day] of this month; the month Abib or Nisan, which shows that this direction must be given before that day, and so very probably on the first of the month, as before observed:

they shall take to them every man a lamb; not every individual person, but every master of a family, or head of an house, as follows:

according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house; if large enough to eat up a whole lamb, otherwise they were to do as next directed: the Targum of Jonathan suggests, that this direction of taking a lamb to them on the tenth day of the month was only for this time, and not for following ages; and so the Jewish doctors c commonly understand it as being peculiar to the passover in Egypt, and not in later times; for they d say,

"what difference is there between the passover in Egypt, and the passover in later ages? the passover in Egypt was taken within the tenth day, and was obliged to sprinkling with a bunch of hyssop upon the lintel, and upon the two side posts, and was eaten with haste in one night, but the passover in later ages was kept all the seven days.''

The ground and reason of this special direction for taking up a lamb on the tenth day was, that they might have a lamb ready; and that through the multiplicity of business, and the hurry they would be in at their departure, they might not forget it, and neglect it; and that they might have time enough to examine whether it had all the prerequisites and qualifications that were necessary; and that while they had it in view, they might be led to meditate upon, and talk of, expect and firmly believe their deliverance; yea, that their faith might be directed to a far greater deliverance by the Messiah, which this was only typical of, Hebrews 11:28 but some of these reasons would hold good in later times, and it seems by some circumstances that this rule was attended to.

c Ben Gersom in loc. Maimon. Korban Pesach. c. 10. sect. 15. d Misn. Pesach. c. 9. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A lamb - The Hebrew word is general, meaning either a sheep or a goat - male or female - and of any age; the age and sex are therefore epecially defined in the following verse. The direction to select the lamb on the tenth day, the fourth day before it was offered, was intended to secure due care in the preparation for the great national festival. The custom certainly fell into desuetude at a later period, but probably not before the destruction of the temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 12:3. In the tenth day of this month — In after times they began their preparation on the thirteenth day or day before the PASSOVER, which was not celebrated till the fourteenth day, see Exodus 12:6: but on the present occasion, as this was their first passover, they probably required more time to get ready in; as a state of very great confusion must have prevailed at this time. Mr. Ainsworth remarks that on this day the Israelites did afterwards go through Jordan into the land of Canaan; Joshua 4:19. And Christ, our Paschal Lamb, on this day entered Jerusalem, riding on an ass; the people bearing palm branches, and crying, Hosanna, John 12:1; John 12:12-13, c.: and in him this type was truly fulfilled.

A lamb — The original word שה seh signifies the young of sheep and of goats, and may be indifferently translated either lamb or kid. See Exodus 12:5.

A lamb for a house — The whole host of Israel was divided into twelve tribes, these tribes into families, the families into houses, and the houses into particular persons Num. i., Joshua 7:14. -Ainsworth.