Chūāijíjì 12:4

4 Ruò shì yī jiā de rén taì shǎo , chī bú le yī zhǐ yánggāo , bĕn rén jiù yào hé tā gébì de línshè gòng qǔ yī zhǐ . nǐmen yùbeì yánggāo , yào àn zhe rén shǔ hé fànliàng jìsuàn .

Chūāijíjì 12:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:4

And if the household be too little for the lamb
That they cannot eat it up at once; let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the
number of the souls;
which Josephus ^F5 says were never fewer than ten, and were often twenty, but no man might feast alone; with which agrees the Jewish canon ^F6,

``they do not kill the passover lamb for a single person, nor even for a society consisting of one hundred, that cannot eat the quantity of an olive:''

every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb:
that is, a man must reckon up how many he has in his own house to eat of the lamb, and what their appetites be, by which he will he able to judge whether he can dispense with a lamb himself, or whether he must take in some of his neighbours, and how many, so as to eat up the whole lamb, for, for such persons the lamb was to be slain. The rule is,

``if a man slays it for those that do not eat of it, or for those that are not counted, for the uncircumcised, and the unclean, it was wrong, and not allowed of ^F7.''

The taking in his neighbours may respect the call of the Gentiles to partake of Christ with the Jews, see ( Ephesians 3:5 Ephesians 3:6 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3.
F6 Misn. Pesach. c. 8. sect. 7.
F7 lbid. c. 5. sect. 3.

Chūāijíjì 12:4 In-Context

2 Nǐmen yào yǐ bĕn yuè wéi zhēngyuè , wéi yī nián zhī shǒu .

3 Nǐmen fēnfu Yǐsèliè quánhuì zhòng shuō , bĕn yuè chū shí rì , gèrén yào àn zhe fù jiā qǔ yánggāo , yī jiā yī zhī .

4 Ruò shì yī jiā de rén taì shǎo , chī bú le yī zhǐ yánggāo , bĕn rén jiù yào hé tā gébì de línshè gòng qǔ yī zhǐ . nǐmen yùbeì yánggāo , yào àn zhe rén shǔ hé fànliàng jìsuàn .

5 Yào wú cánji , yī suì de gōng yánggāo , nǐmen huò cóng miányáng lǐ qǔ , huò cóng shānyáng lǐ qǔ , dōu kĕyǐ .

6 Yào liú dào bĕn yuè shí sì rì , zaì huánghūn de shíhou , Yǐsèliè quánhuì zhòng bǎ yánggāo zǎi le .