Passage Research
Exodus 12 — Sermon Preparation
The Passover is instituted with its lamb, blood, and unleavened bread; at midnight the firstborn of Egypt die, and Israel leaves in haste. Below is a research summary for Exodus 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 51
- verses
- 751 / 225
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 22
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
Exodus 12 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִצְרַיִם | Mitsrayim | H4714 | 21 | Mitsrajim |
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 18 | eat |
| מַצָּה | matstsâh | H4682 | 6 | sweetness, sweet |
| לַיִל | layil | H3915 | 7 | twist, night |
| חָמֵץ | châmêts | H2556 | 5 | ferment, extortion |
| חֹדֶשׁ | chôdesh | H2320 | 7 | new, month |
| יָצָא | yâtsâʼ | H3318 | 8 | go, bring |
How preachers through history handled this text
22 public-domain excerpts on Exodus 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does this is to them the beginning of a new life. God appointed that, on the night wherein they were to go out of Egypt, each family should kill a lamb, or that two or three families, if small, should kill one lamb. This lamb was to be eaten in the manner here directed, and the blood to be sprinkled on the door-posts, to mark the houses of the Israelites from those of the Egyptians. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Exodus 12:1–20 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Ex 12:1
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