Exodus 12:3 (KJV)

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Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for an house

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Cross-references

Speak ye. Ex 4:30 Ex 6:6 Ex 14:15 Ex 20:19 Le 1:2

in the tenth. Ex 12:6 Joh 12:1 Joh 12:12

take to. Ge 4:4 Ge 22:8 1Sa 7:9 Joh 1:29 Joh 1:36 1Co 5:7 Re 5:6-13 Re 7:9-14 Re 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 ver. 5 that the Hebrews might take either; but they generally preferred a lamb, from being of a more gentle nature. Le 5:6 Nu 15:11 2Ch 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. Nu 1:1-54 Jos 7:14

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