Exodus 12:22
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
BSB
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ASV
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
KJV
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
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Commentary
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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.”
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)
Original language & word study
25 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּלְקַחְתֶּ֞ם | u.le.kach.Tem | and you will take | H3947 → |
| אֲגֻדַּ֣ת | 'a.gu.Dat | a bunch of | H92 → |
| אֵז֗וֹב | 'e.Zov | hyssop | H231 → |
| וּטְבַלְתֶּם֮ | u.te.val.Tem | and you will dip [it] | H2881 → |
| בַּדָּ֣ם | ba.Dam | in the blood | H1818 → |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | 'a.Sher- | which | H834 → |
| בַּסַּף֒ | ba.Saf | [is] in the basin | H5592 → |
| וְהִגַּעְתֶּ֤ם | ve.hi.ga'.Tem | and you will make touch | H5060 → |
| אֶל־ | 'el- | <to> | H413 → |
| הַמַּשְׁקוֹף֙ | ha.mash.kOf | the lintels | H4947 → |
| וְאֶל־ | ve.'el- | and <to> | H413 → |
| שְׁתֵּ֣י | she.Tei | [the] two | H8147 → |
| הַמְּזוּזֹ֔ת | ha.me.zu.Zot | the doorposts | H4201 → |
| מִן־ | min- | some of | H4480 → |
| הַדָּ֖ם | ha.Dam | the blood | H1818 → |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | 'a.Sher | which | H834 → |
| בַּסָּ֑ף | ba.Saf | [is] in the basin | H5592 → |
| וְאַתֶּ֗ם | ve.'a.Tem | and you | H859 → |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → |
| תֵצְא֛וּ | te.tze.'U | you will go out | H3318 → |
| אִ֥ישׁ | 'ish | anyone | H376 → |
| מִפֶּֽתַח־ | mi.pe.tach- | from [the] door of | H6607 → |
| בֵּית֖וֹ | bei.To | house his | H1004 → |
| עַד־ | 'ad- | until | H5704 → |
| בֹּֽקֶר׃ | Bo.ker | morning | H1242 → |
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