Exodus 12:8 “They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with…”

Exodus 12:8

They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

World English Bible

They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

American Standard Version

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they shall eate the flesh the same night, roste with fire, and vnleauened bread: with sowre herbes they shall eate it.

Darby Translation

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter [herbs] shall they eat it.

Young's Literal Translation

'And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;

Bible in Basic English

And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.

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Cross references

“eat the”

John 6:52–57 Matthew 26:26

John 6:52–57 · BSB

At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

Matthew 26:26 · BSB

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”

“roast”

Deuteronomy 16:7 Isaiah 53:10 Psalm 22:14

Deuteronomy 16:7 · BSB

And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

Isaiah 53:10 · BSB

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His h…

Psalm 22:14 · BSB

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

“unleavened”

Exodus 34:25 Exodus 13:3 Exodus 13:7 1 Corinthians 5:6–8 Amos 4:5 Matthew 16:12

Exodus 34:25 · BSB

Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

Exodus 13:3 · BSB

So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

Exodus 13:7 · BSB

Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.

1 Corinthians 5:6–8 · BSB

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

Amos 4:5 · BSB

Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

Matthew 16:12 · BSB

Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

“with bitter”

Exodus 1:14 Zechariah 12:10 1 Thessalonians 1:6

Exodus 1:14 · BSB

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Zechariah 12:10 · BSB

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and gr…

1 Thessalonians 1:6 · BSB

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.

Also

Exodus 23:18

Exodus 23:18 · BSB

You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

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

In context

7They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

9Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

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