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Exodus 12:35 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. "
Exodus 12:35
Verse in Context
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33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
36 The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
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Exodus 12:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,"
Exodus 12:2
"“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you."
Exodus 12:3
"Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On 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;"
Exodus 12:4
"and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat."
Exodus 12:5
"Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats."
Exodus 12:6
"You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening."
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