3. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Ifrael, faying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.

3. Tenth day: That they might have their Lamb in a readiness. This feems peculiarly to belong to the Paffover of Egypt, and not to oblige

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them in future times: It doth however fitly reprefent our Saviour's coming to Jerufalem on the tenth day of this Month, Joh. 12. 1, 12. Lamb: Or, 4. And if the houshold be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house, take it according to the number of the fouls: every man according to his eating fhall make your count for the lamb.

5. Your lamb fhall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

4. According to the number, &c. There were wont to be ten at leaft (and fometimes more) at the eating of one Lamb; [Fofeph. Of the Wars of the Jews, Book 7.

maimed. This was

a Type of our Saviour, 1 Pet. 1. 19. 2.22. A male: The moft excellent of its kind, Mal. 1. 14. and that which was required in the moft perfect and complete Sacrifice, which was the Holocauft, or whole Burnt-offering, Levit. 1. 3, 10. Of the first year: Heb. Son of a year. It must not exceed the firft year; if it be above a year old, it must not be offered up, Levit. 22. 27.

6. And ye shall keep it up untill the fourteenth day of the fame month: and the whole affembly of the congregation of Ifrael fhall kill it in the evening.

6. In the evening: Heb. Between the two evenings: i. e.

In the Afternoon,
There was among the
Jews a former and a

latter Evening: The Former began at Noon, affoon as the Sun begins to decline: The Latter was their Sun-fet [Judg.13. 8,9. compared with Joh. 10. 26, 27. and Luk. 9. 12. with Matth. 14. 15.] The time between the two Evenings Y 3

when

when our Days and Nights are of an equal length, is three a Clock in the Afternoon, which antwers to the ninth hour among the Jews, and was among them a time of Prayer (At. 3. 1.) and of their daily Evening Sacrifice, Numb. 28. 4. About this time the Paffover was flain. [Vid. Pefa. c.i. m.1.] And about the fame time of the day our Saviour died, who is our Paffover that was facrificed for us, 1 Cor. 5. 7. Mark 15, 34, 37. compared with v. 42, 43.

7. And they fhall take of the blood, and ftrike it on the two fidepofts, and on the upper door pofts of the houfes wherein they shall eat

it.

8. And they fhall eat the flesh in that night roft with fire, and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they fhall eat it.

the

1.Upper door-post: But not on Threshold. Vid. Heb.

10.29:

8. Unleavened bread: V. Luk. 12.1. 1 Cor. 5. 8. Bitter herbs: To mind them of their grievous Bondage in Egypt.

9. Eat not of it raw, nor fodden at all with water, but roft with fire: his head, with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10. And ye shall let nothing of it remain untill the morning and that which remaineth of it untill the morning, ye shall burn with fire.

II. And thus fhall ye eat it, with your loins girded, your shooes on your feet, and your staff in your band: and ye shall eat it in hafte: it is the LORD's passover.

10. Untill the morning: It being an Euchariftical Sacrifice, Levit. 7. 15.

11. Loins girded: ie. Like Travellingmen. These things, as well as what we read v.7. were peculiar to the firft Pass

over: And hence it is very probable, that it was at this time received standing. Vid. Luk, 7. 37. and 12. 35. Ephef. 6. 14, 15.

12. For

12. Gods: Or,

12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will fmite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will executedgment: I am the LORD..

13. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the boufes where you are: and when I fee the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague fhall not be upon you to deftroy you, when I fmite the land of Egypt.

14. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial: and you shall keep it a feaft to the LORD, throughout your generations: you Shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

15. Seven days fhall ye eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your boufes: for whofoever eateth leavened day untill the feventh day, that soul Ifrael.

16. And in the first day there

Princes. Poffibly the Idols of the Egyptians were thrown down; and fuch a Tradition there is among the Jewish Doctors [Vid. Pirke R. Eliefer, c. 48.] 13. A token: viz. of fafety. Vid. Ezek. To deftroy: 9:4 Heb. For a destructi

14 For ever: ie To the times of the of the GeremonialMeffiah, or period Law and Jewish Politie, Chron.15.2. Numb, 10.8.

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15. Cut off: Vid. the Notes on Gen, 17. 14.

bread from the first shall be cut off from

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16. Man: Heb.

fhall be an holy convocation, and in Soul.

the feventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you: no manner of work fhall be done in them, fave that which every man must eat, that onely may be done of you.

17. And ye shall obferve the 17. In this felf feaft of unleavened bread: for in fame day: Heb. this felf-fame day have I brought Strength or body of your armies out of the land of E- this day,

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Bypt: therefore fhall ye obferve this day in your generatiOns by an ordinance for ever.

18. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye fhall eat unleavened bread, untill the one and twentieth day of the 19. Seven days fhall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whofoever eateth that which is leavened, even that foul shall be cut off from the congregation of If rael, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

23. For the LORD will pafs through to fmite the Egyptians: and when he feeth the blood.

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18. In the firft: Levit. 23. 5. Numb

28. 1

month at even.

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19. A ftranger: e. One that is not of the Race of Ifrael, though he fojourn in profelyted to their their Land, and be Religion.

22. And ye, &c. Heb. 11. 28. None of you shall go out : culiarly to belong to This feems alfo pèthis first Paffover, the reafon not being the fame afterwards.

23. Pafs through? Berevealed, fays the Chaldee

the lintel, and on the two fide-posts, the LORD will pafs over the door, and will not fuffer the deftroyer to come in unto your houfes to fmite you.

24. And

24. And ye shall obferve this thing for an ordinance to thee, and to thy fons for ever.

25. And it fhall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he bath promifed, that yofhall keep this fervice.

26. And it &c

26. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto Fosh. 4.6. you, what mean you by this fervice?

27. That ye shall fay, It is the facrifice of the LORD's Paffover, who paffed over the houses of the children of Ifrael in Egypt, when he fmote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worShipped.

28. And the children of Ifrael went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Mofes and Aaron; fo did they.

29. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD fmote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh that fat on his throne, unto the first born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of cattel.

29. And it came &c. ch. 11. 4. At midnight: At the flent time of the Night when Men are generally moft fecure, I Theff.5.3,7. Matt. 25. 5, 6. What we read Numb. 8. 17. doth not contradict

what is faid here. Day is put for Time indefinitely in thefe Sacred Writers. See the Notes on Gen.2.4. From the firft-born: Wild. 28. 11. Dungeon: Heb. Houfe of

the pit.

30. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his fervants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt for there was not an houfe where there was not one dead.

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31. And he called for Mofes and Aaron by night, and faid, Rife up, and get you forth from among my people, both you and the children of Ifrael, and go, ferve the LORD, as ye have said,

32. Allo