"Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your famil…" — Exodus 12:21

Exodus 12:21 · KJV

“Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. {lamb: or, kid}”

— Exodus 12:21

Verse 20

Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Verse 22

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.

Exodus 12 — Context

Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. {lamb: or, kid}

For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite {you}.

Cross References

Exodus 12:3

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: {lamb: or, kid}

2 Kings 23:21

And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as {it is} written in the book of this covenant.

Ezra 6:20

For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them {were} pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

Joshua 5:10

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

Mark 14:12-16

And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? {killed: or, sacrificed}

Numbers 9:2-5

Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Exodus 12:11

And thus shall ye eat it; {with} your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it {is} the LORD'S passover.

Exodus 19:7

And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.