Exodus 12:28

28 The Israelites went and did exactly what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron to do.

Exodus 12:28 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:28

And the children of Israel went away
The elders of the people, ( Exodus 12:21 ) they departed to their several tribes and families at Goshen and elsewhere: and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they;
they took a lamb on the tenth day, and kept it till the fourteenth, on which day they slew it, and roasted it with fire, and ate it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 12:28 In-Context

26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?'

27 you will say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for the LORD passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. When he struck down the Egyptians, he spared our houses.'" The people then bowed down and worshipped.

28 The Israelites went and did exactly what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron to do.

29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the first offspring in the land of Egypt, from the oldest child of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the oldest child of the prisoner in jail, and all the first offspring of the animals.

30 When Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the Egyptians got up that night, a terrible cry of agony rang out across Egypt because every house had someone in it who had died.