Exodus 12:22

"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."

Key Reflection

This command to select and sacrifice lambs marks a pivotal moment in the Exodus narrative, symbolizing the substitutionary death of the paschal lamb which protected Israelites from the Angel of Death during the tenth plague. The act foreshadows Jesus' sacrificial role as the ultimate Passover Lamb who would protect believers from eternal judgment.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

A bunch of hyssop -The species here designated does not appear to be the plant now bearing the name. It would seem to have been an aromatic plant, common in Palestine and near Mount Sinai, with a long straight stalk and leaves well adapted for the purpose of sprinkling. Bason -The rendering rests on good authority and gives a good sense: but the word means “threshold” in some other passages and in Egyptian, and is taken here in that sense by some versions. If that rendering be correct it would imply that the lamb was slain on the threshold. None ... shall go out ...

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