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Exodus 12 — Sermon Preparation

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.

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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

20 public-domain excerpts on Exodus 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Spurgeon 9 Matthew Henry 6 Calvin 3 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“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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