Exodus 12:21 “Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at onc…”

Exodus 12:21

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

American Standard Version

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then Moses called all the Elders of Israel, and saide vnto them, Choose out and take you for euerie of your housholdes a lambe, and kill the Passeouer.

Darby Translation

And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover.

Young's Literal Translation

And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel, and saith unto them, 'Draw out and take for yourselves [from] the flock, for your families, and slaughter the passover-sacrifice;

Bible in Basic English

Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.

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Cross references

“elders”

Exodus 3:16 Exodus 17:5 Exodus 19:7 Numbers 11:16

Exodus 3:16 · BSB

Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to yo…

Exodus 17:5 · BSB

And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

Exodus 19:7 · BSB

So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

Numbers 11:16 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

“and take”

Exodus 12:3 Joshua 5:10 2 Kings 23:21 Ezra 6:20 Mark 14:12–16 Numbers 9:2–5

Exodus 12:3 · BSB

Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

Joshua 5:10 · BSB

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

2 Kings 23:21 · BSB

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

Ezra 6:20 · BSB

All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.

Mark 14:12–16 · BSB

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

Numbers 9:2–5 · BSB

“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

Also

Exodus 12:11

Exodus 12:11 · BSB

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

22Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

Read Exodus 12