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You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
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Verse 22. Hyssop; Hebrew ezob: which some translate rosemary. Menochius.—Sprinkle, and so forth This sprinkling the doors of the Israelites with the blood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the sword of the destroying angel, was a lively figure of our redemption by the blood of Christ. Challoner.—S. Jerom, in Is. lxvi. says the doors were to be sprinkled in the form of a cross.
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