Exodus 12 · Verse 47

Exodus 12:47

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus 12:47, King James Version

Exodus 12:47 in other translations

BSBThe whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.
WEBAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
ASVAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
YLTall the company of Israel do keep it.
DARBYAll the assembly of Israel shall hold it.
BBEAll Israel is to keep the feast.
WebsterAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

What does Exodus 12:47 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 12:43-51

In times to come, all the congregation of Israel must keep the passover. All that share in God's mercies should join in thankful praises for them. The New Testament passover, the Lord's supper, ought not to be neglected by any. Strangers, if circumcised, might eat of the passover. Here is an early indication of favour to the gentiles. This taught the Jews that their being a nation favoured by God, entitled them to…

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Exodus 12:47 in the original Hebrew

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כָּל\־kol-allH3605
עֲדַ֥ת'a.Dat[the] congregation ofH5712
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
יַעֲשׂ֥וּya.'a.Suthey will doH6213
אֹתֽוֹ\׃'o.To<obj.> itH853

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 12:47

  • 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.

  • Numbers 9:13

    But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

  • 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:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
All the.
3,6; Nu 9:13
keep it. Heb. do it.

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Context

  • Exodus 12:46

    In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

  • Exodus 12:47

    All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

  • Exodus 12:48

    And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

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Exodus 12:47 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Toda la congregación de Israel le sacrificará.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Toute l’assemblée d’Israël la fera.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die ganze Gemeinde Israel soll es feiern
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Omnis cœtus filiorum Israël faciet illud.