Exodus 12:51 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 12:51

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

KJV

And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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Commentary

2 voices

Cosmas Indicopleustes

The Christian Topography, Book 12 (550)

The writers again of Egyptian history, namely, Manethô, and Chaerêmôn, Apollonius surnamed Molôn, Lysimachus and Apiôn the Grammarian mention Moses and the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt. For, as being Egyptians and the historians of Egypt, they also agree in their relations …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

By their armies - צבאתם tsibotham, from צבא tsaba, to assemble, meet together, in an orderly or regulated manner, and hence to war, to act together as troops in battle; whence צבאות tsebaoth, troops, armies, hosts. It is from this that the Divine Being calls himself יהוה צבאות Yehovah tsebaoth, the Lord Of Hosts or armies, because the Israelites were brought out of Egypt under his direction, marshalled and ordered by himself, guided by his wisdom, supported by his providence, and protected by his might.

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Hebraic traditional view

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

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֕י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בְּעֶ֖צֶם	be.'E.tzem	on [the] substance of	H6106 →
הַיּ֣וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
הַזֶּ֑ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
הוֹצִ֨יא	ho.Tzi'	he brought out	H3318 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בְּנֵ֧י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מֵאֶ֥רֶץ	me.'E.retz	from [the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרַ֖יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
צִבְאֹתָֽם׃ פ	tziv.'o.Tam	hosts their	H6635 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H6106beetzemon [the] substance of126×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 6:26
It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
leads to
- Exodus 7:4
  Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 12:17
  So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute…
- Exodus 6:13
  Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 33:1
  These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
- 1 Chronicles 6:3
  The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Through
Exodus 12:41
At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
leads to
- John 7:8
  Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
- Acts 1:7
  Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Habakkuk 2:3
  For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.

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