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Exodus 12:11 KJV
Exodus · chapter 12 · verse 11
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.Exodus 12:11 · King James Version
Exodus 12:11 in context
9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.
12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- girdedchâgarto gird onH2296 →
- LORD'SYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- loinsmôthenproperly, the waist or small of the backH4975 →
- shoesnaʻalproperly, a sandal tongueH5275 →
- staffmaqqêla shootH4731 →
- hastechippâzôwnhasty flightH2649 →
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Moses and Aaron here receive of the Lord what they were afterwards to deliver to the people concerning the ordinance of the passover, to which is prefixed an order for a new style to be observed in their months (Exo 12:1, Exo 12:2): This shall be to you the beginning of months.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-20