Exodus 12:46

46 In one housse shall it be eate. Ye shall carie none of the flesh out at the doores: moreouer, se that ye breke not a bone there of.

Exodus 12:46 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:46

In one house shall it be eaten
For though there might be more lambs than one eaten in a house, where there were a sufficient number to eat them; and there might be more societies than one in a house, provided they kept themselves distinct, and were large enough each of them to eat up a lamb; yet one lamb might not be eaten in different houses, a part of it in one house, and a part of it in another; which may denote the unity of the general assembly and church of the firstborn, and the distinct separate congregations of the saints, and the right that each have to a whole Christ, who is not to be divided from his ministers, word, and ordinances; (See Gill on Matthew 26:18): thou shall not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house:
into another house; for where there was not a sufficient number in one house to eat a lamb, their neighbours in the next house were to join with them; but then they were not to part it, and one portion of it to be eaten in one house, and the other in another, but they were to meet together in one of their houses, and there partake of it; thus, though Christ may be fed upon by faith any where by particular believers, yet in an ordinance way only in the church of God: neither shall ye break a bone thereof;
any of its tender bones to get out the marrow; and so the Targum of Jonathan adds,

``that ye may eat that which is in the midst of it:''
this was remarkably fulfilled in Christ the antitype, ( John 19:32-36 ) .

Exodus 12:46 In-Context

44 but all the seruauntes that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat there of.
45 A strauger and a hyerd seruaunte shall not eate thereof.
46 In one housse shall it be eate. Ye shall carie none of the flesh out at the doores: moreouer, se that ye breke not a bone there of.
47 All the multitude of the childern of Israel shall obserue it
48 Yf a straunger dwell amonge you ad wyll holde Passeover vnto the Lorde, let him circucise all that be males, ad the let him come and obserue it ad be take as one that is borne i the lode. No vncircucised persone shall eate there of.
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