Exodus 12:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Israel. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "of the sons of Israel".

man. Hebrew. 'ish (App-14.)

lamb. Hebrew. seh, " one of. flock", i.e.. lamb or. ' kid, Exodus 12:5. Deu 14:4. 2 Chronicles 35:7.

house. Fixed later (by custom) as not less than ten persons.

Exodus 12:3

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,a according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: