Keluaran 12:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi jika rumah tangga itu terlalu kecil jumlahnya untuk mengambil seekor anak domba, maka ia bersama-sama dengan tetangganya yang terdekat ke rumahnya haruslah mengambil seekor, menurut jumlah jiwa; tentang anak domba itu, kamu buatlah perkiraan menurut keperluan tiap-tiap orang.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi jika rumah tangga itu terlalu kecil jumlahnya untuk mengambil seekor anak domba, maka ia bersama-sama dengan tetangganya yang terdekat ke rumahnya haruslah mengambil seekor, menurut jumlah jiwa; tentang anak domba itu, kamu buatlah perkiraan menurut keperluan tiap-tiap orang.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi jikalau orang isi sebuah rumah kurang banyak akan mengambil seekor anak domba sendiri, baiklah diambilnya bersama-sama dengan orang yang sekampung dengan dia, yaitu dengan orang sebelahnya, turut bilangan orang isi rumah sekadar yang dapat dimakan habis oleh masing-masing, maka hendaklah dikira-kirakan olehmu akan anak domba itu.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron in the lande of Egypt, saying: ² This moneth shalbe vnto you ye begynnyng of monethes, and the first moneth of the yere shall it be vnto you. ³ Speake ye vnto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth daye of this moneth, euery man take vnto hym a lambe according to ye house of the fathers, a lambe throughout euery house. ⁴ If the houshold be to litle for ye lambe, let hym take his neyghbour whiche is next vnto his house, accordyng to the number of the soules, euery one of you accordyng to his eatyng shal make your compt for a lambe. ⁵ And let the lambe of yours be without blemishe, a male of a yere olde [whiche] ye shal take out from among the sheepe, and from among the goates. ⁶ And ye shall kepe hym in vntyll the fourteenth day of the same moneth: and euery assemble of the congregation of Israel shall kyll hym about euen. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood and stryke it on the two [syde] postes, and on the vpper doore post, euen in the houses where they shall eate hym. ⁸ And they shall eate the fleshe the same nyght, rost with fire, and with vnleauened bread: and with sowre hearbes they shall eate it. ⁹ See that ye eate not therof rawe, nor sodden with water, but roste with fire: the head, feete, and purtenaunce therof. ¹⁰ And ye shall let nothyng of it remayne vnto the morning: That which remayneth of it vntyll the morowe, shall ye burne with fire.

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Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:35 - I hear Matthew 26:19 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
These are the generations of Tarah: Tarah begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran: Haron begat Lot.

Genesis 11:31
And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.

Hebrews 11:8
By fayth Abraham when he was called, obeyed, to go out into a place whiche he shoulde afterwarde receaue to inheritaunce: and he went out, not knowyng whyther he shoulde go.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if the household be too little for the lamb,.... That they cannot eat it up at once;

let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; which Josephus e says were never fewer than ten, and were often twenty, but no man might feast alone; with which agrees the Jewish canon f,

"they do not kill the passover lamb for a single person, nor even for a society consisting of one hundred, that cannot eat the quantity of an olive:''

every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb: that is, a man must reckon up how many he has in his own house to eat of the lamb, and what their appetites be, by which he will he able to judge whether he can dispense with a lamb himself, or whether he must take in some of his neighbours, and how many, so as to eat up the whole lamb, for, for such persons the lamb was to be slain. The rule is,

"if a man slays it for those that do not eat of it, or for those that are not counted, for the uncircumcised, and the unclean, it was wrong, and not allowed of g.''

The taking in his neighbours may respect the call of the Gentiles to partake of Christ with the Jews, see Ephesians 3:5.

e De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3. f Misn. Pesach. c. 8. sect. 7. g lbid. c. 5. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tradition specifies ten as the least number; but the matter was probably left altogether to the discretion of the heads of families.

The last clause should be rendered: “each man, according to his eating, ye shall count for the lamb.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 12:4. If the household be too little — That is, if there be not persons enough in one family to eat a whole lamb, then two families must join together. The rabbins allow that there should be at least ten persons to one paschal lamb, and not more than twenty.

Take it, according to the number of the souls — The persons who were to eat of it were to be first ascertained, and then the lamb was to be slain and dressed for that number.