Exodus 12:10
in Exodus 12Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
KJV
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
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This verse in Exodus 12
Commentary
9 notes on this verseYe shall let nothing of it remain until the morning - Merely to prevent putrefaction; for it was not meet that a thing offered to God should be subjected to corruption, which in such hot countries it must speedily undergo. Thus the body of our blessed Lord saw no corruption, Psa 16:10; Act 2:27, because, like the paschal lamb, it was a sacrifice offered to God. It appears that from the Jewish passover the heathens borrowed their sacrifice termed Propter Viam.
This site's exposition
they shall eat the flesh in that night
on Exodus 12:8-10
Blood on the door saves the house and the flesh inside feeds the people, and the chapter requires both. Roasting with fire rather than boiling keeps the animal whole, and the bitter herbs put the taste of the bondage on the table on the night it ends. Nothing may be left until morning, so the meal cannot become a store of food and belongs to that night alone.
This site's exposition
you must burn up any part that is left over
Albert Barnes notes that the rule became a general law of sacrifice, and the fire offered to the LORD whatever part was left over. Adam Clarke sets it beside Psalm 16:10, where the Holy One is kept from seeing decay. Acts 2:27 applies that psalm to Jesus.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Consequently let us compare the divine Scripture with itself and follow the path of the solution that it would open to us. For we find in the sacrifice of the Passover that it is ordered to be offered "in the evening." In like manner, the command is given that "nothing will remain of the flesh until morning." It is not insignificant that the divine word wants us to eat not yesterday's meat, but always fresh and new, particularly those who offer to God the Passover sacrifice or "the sacrifice of praise."
The Medieval Church1 voice
Concerning which it is rightly added: "You shall consume the head with the feet and the entrails," because our Redeemer is the Alpha and Omega, that is, God before the ages and man at the end of the ages. And as we have already said, brothers, we have learned from Paul's testimony that God is the head of Christ. Therefore, to consume the head of the lamb is to receive His divinity by faith. To consume the feet of the lamb is to seek out the footsteps of His humanity by loving and imitating. What indeed are the entrails except the hidden and mystical commands of His words? These we consume when we take up the words of life with eagerness. In this word "consuming," what else is reproved but the torpor of our sloth? We who do not seek out His words and mysteries by ourselves, and hear the things spoken by others unwillingly. "Nothing of it shall remain until morning," because His words must be examined with great care, so that before the day of resurrection appears, in this night of the present life all His commands may be penetrated through understanding and doing. But because it is very difficult for all sacred eloquence to be understood and every mystery of it to be penetrated, it is rightly added: "But if anything remains, you shall burn it with fire." What remains of the lamb we burn with fire when we humbly reserve to the power of the Holy Spirit that which we cannot understand and penetrate concerning the mystery of His incarnation, so that no one may proudly dare either to despise or to proclaim what he does not understand, but hands it over to the fire when he reserves it to the Holy Spirit.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
To-day Christ is offered, and is to be accepted while it is called to-day, before we sleep the sleep of death. (4.) It was to be eaten with bitter herbs (
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And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
let nothing of it remain until the morning--which might be applied in a superstitious manner, or allowed to putrefy, which in a hot climate would speedily have ensued; and which was not becoming in what had been offered to God.
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
This was afterward a general law of sacrifices; at once preventing all possibility of profanity, and of superstitious abuse. The injunction is on both accounts justly applied by our Church to the eucharist. Burn with fire - Not being consumed by man, it was thus offered, like other sacrifices Exo 12:8, to God.
How the passage was read
On Exodus 12:1-51On Exodus 12:1-51
The night Israel still keeps
This chapter founds Passover, in Hebrew Pesach, the spring feast that remembers the night God struck Egypt's firstborn and passed over the blood-marked houses. Jewish families keep it to this day with a ceremonial meal called the seder (Hebrew for “order”): unleavened flatbread (matzah), bitter herbs, cups of wine, and the retelling of this chapter's story, with the children asking the questions.
Honesty about the timeline helps the reader: in the Bible's own period the center of the feast was the lamb, slain and eaten as this chapter commands. The seder as now practiced took its shape after the Temple fell in AD 70 and the lamb could no longer be offered; its oldest written outline is in the Mishnah, the first code of Jewish oral law (about AD 200), which already includes the four cups and the rule that “in every generation a person must see himself as if he personally came out of Egypt.”
What the Jewish commentators add
BUT THAT WHICH REMAINETH OF IT…BURN WITH FIRE. If one was unable to eat one’s portion due to circumstances beyond one’s control.
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
You must not leave any of it over until morning. Any of it left over until morning must be burned in fire.
The reference is only to the paschal lamb eaten in Egypt. However, those in Argalon. The reference is unclear.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 10 (the seder's oldest outline) · Mishnah Pesachim 10:5 (“in every generation”) · The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study)
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תוֹתִ֥ירוּ | totiru | you will leave over | H3498 → | 106 times |
| מִמֶּ֖נּוּ | mimenu | any of it | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| בֹּ֑קֶר | boker | morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| וְהַנֹּתָ֥ר | vehanotar | and what is left over | H3498 → | 106 times |
| מִמֶּ֛נּוּ | mimenu | of it | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| בֹּ֖קֶר | boker | morning | H1242 → | 214 times |
| בָּאֵ֥שׁ | baesh | with <the> fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| תִּשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃ | tisrofu | you will burn | H8313 → | 117 times |
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
תוֹתִ֥ירוּyou will leave over
totiruH3498 →106 times
מִמֶּ֖נּוּany of it
mimenuH4480 →1188 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
בֹּ֑קֶרmorning
bokerH1242 →214 times
וְהַנֹּתָ֥רand what is left over
vehanotarH3498 →106 times
מִמֶּ֛נּוּof it
mimenuH4480 →1188 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
בֹּ֖קֶרmorning
bokerH1242 →214 times
בָּאֵ֥שׁwith <the> fire
baeshH784 →378 times
תִּשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃you will burn
tisrofuH8313 →117 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 23:18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
it leads to
- Exodus 12:8
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Leviticus 2:11
No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- Exodus 34:25
Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
- Deuteronomy 16:4
No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
- Leviticus 7:15
The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.
- Exodus 12:8
Through
Exodus 34:25Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
it leads to
- Exodus 23:18
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
- Exodus 12:20
You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
- Exodus 23:18
Through
Exodus 29:34And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
it leads to
- Leviticus 8:32
Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
- Leviticus 8:32
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Gregory the Dialogist, Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 22; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 5.8.2.