Exodus 12:3
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, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
KJV
Loquimini ad universum cœtum filiorum Israël, et dicite eis : Decima die mensis hujus tollat unusquisque agnum per familias et domos suas.
Vulgate
λάλησον πρὸς πᾶσαν συναγωγὴν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ λέγων Τῇ δεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς τούτου λαβέτωσαν ἕκαστος πρόβατον κατ’ οἴκους πατριῶν, ἕκαστος πρόβατον κατ’ οἰκίαν.
LXX
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, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household:
ASV
דַּבְּר֗וּ אֶֽל כָּל עֲדַ֤ת יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר בֶּ/עָשֹׂ֖ר לַ/חֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ/זֶּ֑ה וְ/יִקְח֣וּ לָ/הֶ֗ם אִ֛ישׁ שֶׂ֥ה לְ/בֵית אָבֹ֖ת שֶׂ֥ה לַ/בָּֽיִת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
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Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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John 1:29 · allusion"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."Exodus: Passover lamb — John the Baptist: behold the Lamb of God
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6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§608After agreeing to baptize him along with the sinners, John the Baptist looked at Jesus and pointed him out as the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world".422 By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol …
1. I said the other day, that John, to resolve the doubts of those who should question with themselves how the Lord, though He came after to the preaching, became before and more glorious than he, added, for He was before me. And this is indeed one reason. But not content with this, he adds again a second, which now he declares. What is it? And of his fullness, says he, have al…
From the Preface You are not content to fulfil the office, when I am present with you, of a taskmaster to drive me to labour at theology; even when I am absent you demand that I should spend most of my time on you and on the task I have to do for you. I, for my part, am inclined to shrink from toil, and to avoid that danger which threatens from God those who give themselves to …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 5:7 — Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
- Exod 12:21 — Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
- Heb 11:28 — Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
- John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- Lev 1:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
- Lev 5:6 — And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atoneme