OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 12:3

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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

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Verse 3. Children; a word which has been dropped in the printed Hebrew and in the Chaldee, which has been assimilated to it, though found still in some MSS. and in the Sam. Septuagint Syr. and Arab. versions. Ken.—Day. This regarded only the present occasion. Jonathan.—The Jews no longer eat the paschal lamb, as they are banished from Chanaan. Calmet.—Man, who has a family sufficient to eat a lamb; Hebrew se, which means also a kid, (as either was lawful, verse 13,) and perhaps also a calf. Deuteronomy 16:2.

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