Exodus 12 · Verse 11

Exodus 12:11

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 other translations

BSBThis is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
WEBThis is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s Passover.
ASVAnd 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 Jehovah’s passover.
YLT‘And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover,
DARBYAnd thus shall ye eat it: your loins shall be girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover.
BBEAnd take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does Exodus 12:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Ex 12:11-14. The Rite of the Passover.

11. thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet--as prepared for a journey. The first was done by the skirts of the loose outer cloth being drawn up and fastened in the girdle, so as to leave the leg and knee free for motion. As to the other, the Orientals never wear shoes indoors, and the ancient Egyptians, as appears from the monuments, did not usually wear either shoes or sandals. These injunctions seem to have applied chiefly to the first celebration of the rite. it is the Lord's passover--called by this name from the blood-marked dwellings of the Israelites being passed over figuratively by the destroying angel.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded - As in the eastern countries they wear long loose garments, whenever they travel they tuck up the fore parts of their garments in the girdle which they wear round their loins. Your shoes on your feet - This seems particularly mentioned because not customary. "The easterns throw off their shoes when they eat, because it would be troublesome," says Sir J. Chardin, "to keep their shoes upon their feet, they sitting cross-legged on the floor, and having no hinder quarters to their shoes, which are made like slippers; and as they do not use tables and chairs as we do in Europe, but have their floors covered with carpets, they throw off their shoes when they enter their apartments, lest they should soil those beautiful pieces of furniture." On the contrary the Israelites were to have their shoes on, because now about to commence their journey. It was customary among the Romans to lay aside their shoes when they went to a banquet. The servants took them off them when they entered the house, and returned them when they departed to their own habitations. Your staff in your hand - The same writer observes that the eastern people universally make use of a staff when they travel on foot. Ye shall eat it in haste - Because they were suddenly to take their departure: the destroying angel was at hand, their enemies were coming against them, and they had not a moment to lose. It is the Lord's passover - That is, Jehovah is now about to pass over the land, and the houses only where the blood is sprinkled shall be safe from the stroke of death. The Hebrew word פסח pesach, which we very properly translate Passover, and which should always be pronounced as two words, has its name from the angel of God passing by or over the houses of the Israelites, on the posts and lintels of which the blood of the lamb was sprinkled, while he stopped at the houses of the Egyptians to slay their first-born.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 12:1-20

The death of the first-born of the Egyptians, The Israelites urged to leave the land of Egypt. (29-36) The Israelites' first journey to Succoth. (37-42) Ordinance respecting the passover. (43-51) Verses 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 appointed that, on…

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Exodus 12:11 in the original Hebrew

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וְכָכָה֮ve.kha.Khahand thusH3602
תֹּאכְל֣וּto.khe.Luyou will eatH398
אֹתוֹ֒'o.To<obj.> itH853
מָתְנֵיכֶ֣םma.te.nei.Khemloins yourH4975
חֲגֻרִ֔יםcha.gu.RimgirdedH2296
נַֽעֲלֵיכֶם֙na.'a.lei.Khemsandals yourH5275
בְּרַגְלֵיכֶ֔םbe.rag.lei.Khemon feet yourH7272
וּמַקֶּלְכֶ֖םu.ma.kel.Khemand staff yourH4731
בְּיֶדְכֶ֑םbe.yed.Khemin hand yourH3027
וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤םva.'a.khal.Temand you will eatH398
אֹתוֹ֙'o.To<obj.> itH853
בְּחִפָּז֔וֹןbe.chi.pa.Zonin hasteH2649
פֶּ֥סַחPe.sach[is] a passoverH6453
ה֖וּאhu'itH1931
לַיהוָֽה\׃la.Yah.wehto YahwehH3068

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Cross references for Exodus 12:11

  • Exodus 12:27

    That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

  • Ephesians 6:15

    And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

  • 1 Peter 1:13

    Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  • 1 Corinthians 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:

  • Leviticus 23:5

    In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.

  • Luke 12:35

    Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

  • Numbers 28:16

    And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.

  • Deuteronomy 16:2-6

    Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: …

  • Exodus 12:43

    And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

  • Matthew 26:19-20

    And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover. Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.

  • Exodus 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.

  • Exodus 12:13

    And 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
loins.
Mt 26:19,20; Lu 12:35; Eph 6:15; 1Pe 1:13
shoes.
Lu 7:38; 15:22; Eph 6:15
it is the.
27; Le 23:5; Nu 28:16; De 16:2-6; 1Co 5:7

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Context

  • Exodus 12:10

    And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

  • Exodus 12:11

    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 12:12

    For 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.

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Exodus 12:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y así habéis de comerlo: ceñidos vuestros lomos, vuestros zapatos en vuestros pies, y vuestro bordón en vuestra mano; y lo comeréis apresuradamente: es la Pascua de Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et vous le mangerez ainsi: vos reins ceints, vos sandales à vos pieds, et votre bâton en votre main; et vous le mangerez à la hâte. C’est la pâque de l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und also sollt ihr es essen: Eure Lenden gegürtet, eure Schuhe an euren Füßen und euren Stab in eurer Hand; und ihr sollt es essen in Eile. Es ist das Passah Jehovas.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Sic autem comedetis illum: renes vestros accingetis, et calceamenta habebitis in pedibus, tenentes baculos in manibus, et comedetis festinanter: est enim Phase (id est, transitus) Domini.