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Exodus 12:15

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 12:15 that person shall be cut off from Israel (also v. Exodus 12:19). Eating leavened bread during the Passover was a serious sin. Although being “cut off” is the punishment for several violations of the law (e.g., Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 7:20; Leviticus 20:17), it is not usually stated whether the community or the Lord will carry out the punishment (see note on Ex. 31:14–15). In this case, it is possible that the people themselves were to remove the violator from the celebration of the Passover. This would have been a merciful warning against disregarding the covenant so that the person would not be “cut off” forever.

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See also Exodus 12:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 12:15. _SEVEN DAYS SHALL YE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD_] This has been considered as a distinct ordinance, and not essentially connected with the passover. The passover was to be observed on th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CUT OFF - The penalty inflicted on those who transgressed the command may be accounted for on the ground that it was an act of rebellion; but additional light is thrown upon it by the typical meaning...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD, THE PASSOVER AND THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN CHAPTER 12 The Passover Instituted and Kept, the Death of the Firstborn and the Exodus _ 1. The Passover instituted and the feast of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    P'S RULES FOR MAZZOTH. Immediately following the one feast of the Passover came the seven-day pilgrimage feast (_cf. Exodus 5:1_) of Unleavened Cakes, probably originally an agricultural festival to m...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 11:1 TO EXODUS 12:36. 10°. DEATH OF EGYPTIAN FIRSTBORN; PASSOVER AND MAZZOTH (Exodus 11:1 E, Exodus 11:4 J,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LEAVEN. fermented bread. First occurance. See App-38. until. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, read "and until"....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SEVEN DAYS SHALL YE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD— In consequence of this command, the Jews searched with the utmost diligence the evening before the passover, that there might not be the least leaven, or leav...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 12 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES AND AAR-ON IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT, SAYING, (2) THIS MONTH SHALL BE UNTO YOU THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS; IT SHALL BE THE FIRST MONTH OF THE...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SEVEN DAYS SHALL YE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD; EVEN THE FIRST DAY YE SHALL PUT AWAY LEAVEN OUT OF YOUR HOUSES: FOR WHOSOEVER EATETH LEAVENED BREAD FROM THE FIRST DAY UNTIL THE SEVENTH DAY, THAT SOUL SHALL...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:15 away (h-16) Lit. 'put a stop to.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. THE TENTH PLAGUE, AND THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL 1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative, and...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The seven days beginning with the Passover are to be kept as a feast of unleavened bread. The Passover (_pesach_) and feast of Unleavened Bread (_mazzoth_) are really distinct, but as they were always...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 12 THE *PASSOVER – VERSES 1-28 PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPECIAL MEAL – VE...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SEVEN DAYS. — The division of time into periods of seven days each was unknown to the more ancient Egyptians, but is thought to have existed in Babylonia as early as B.C. 2000. That it was recognised...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שִׁבְעַ֤ת יָמִים֙ מַצֹּ֣ות תֹּאכֵ֔לוּ אַ֚ךְ בַּ †...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XII. _ THE PASSOVER._ Exodus 12:1. We have now reached the birthday of the great Hebrew nation, and with it the first national institution, the feast of passover, which is also the first sa...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD Exodus 12:15 The inmate of the house did not see the sprinkled blood. It was not necessary to be always going forth to look at it. It was clearly not a matter for his em...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    While the subjects necessarily intermingle at this point, we turn from the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. As thes...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Perish, either by sudden death, or by forfeiting all the prerogatives of God's people; (ver. 19) or, his offense shall be deemed mortal. See Genesis xvii. 14. The punishment of Kerith, separation, amo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This precept is again repeated to intimate its importance. Exo_13:6; Exo_23:15; Exo_34:18....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._Whosoever eateth leavened bread. _This law specially refers to the keeping of the Passover. God had before forbidden the use of leaven; and He now enacts the punishment to be inflicted, if any sho...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SEVEN DAYS SHALL YE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD,.... From the evening of the fourteenth day to the evening of the twenty first; and this was a distinct festival from what was properly called the feast of the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Exo. 12:15. _Concerning leaven. _ It was a most fit type of the corruption of the heart by reason of its sourness, and because of its infecting spreading nature, so that a little leaven leavens the wh...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _This shall be to you for a memorial_ It was to be annually observed as a feast to the Lord in their generations, to which the feast of unleavened bread was annexed. _A holy convocation_ Such solemn f...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The beginning of the yeere is changed. 3 The Passeouer is instituted. 11 The Rite of the Passeouer. 15 Vnleauened bread. 29 The first borne are slaine. 31 The Israelites are driuen out of the l...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PRECEPT PERTAINING TO UNLEAVENED BREAD...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    B. THE DIVINE ORDINANCE OF THE PASSOVER Exodus 12:1-20 1, 2And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month _shall be_ unto you the beginning of months; it _shall be_ t...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PASSOVER FEAST (vs.1-28) The time finally arrives for the Lord to accomplish a work of amazing power in Egypt in the deliverance of a nation numbering over two million, from the bondage of Egypt....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-20 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 a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEVEN DAYS, besides and after the day of eating the passover, which was a distinct feast, and no part of the feast of unleavened bread, SHALL YE EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD, to remind them of their departure...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altoge...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 12:15 Seven H7651 days H3117 eat H398 (H8799) bread H4682 On H389 first H7223 day H3117 remove...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE LATER FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD (EXODUS 12:15). These instructions had the future in mind. They would not be in their houses in order to observe it in Egypt, although it m...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 12:1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you._ And for this...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Deliverance for Israel through the Passover. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the shedding of the blood of a divinely...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The feast of unleavened bread._ THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD; OR, THE ORDINANCES OF GOD, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY SHOULD BE OBSERVED The feast of unleavened bread was a distinct ordinance from...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 12:14_ THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER I. IT IS THE MEMORIAL OF A GLORIOUS FACT. The Passover was commemorative of the safety of the children of Israel w...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    FIRST INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. EXPOSITION THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER AND THE REASONS FOR IT.—In the interval allowed by God, according to the precedent of former announced plagues, between t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you (Exodus 12:1-2). Now in a few wee...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    seven Exodus 12:8 Exodus 13:6 Exodus 13:7 Exodus 23:15 Exodus 34:18...

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