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Exodus 12:33 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead "
Exodus 12:33
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31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
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Exodus 12:1
"And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,"
Exodus 12:2
"This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year"
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:"
Exodus 12:4
"And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb."
Exodus 12:5
"Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:"
Exodus 12:6
"And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."
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