Exodus 12:46

46 "The meal must be eaten inside a house; take none of the meat outside the house. Don't break any of the bones.

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 If someone buys a slave and circumcises him, the slave may eat the Passover.
45 But neither a person who lives for a short time in your country nor a hired worker may eat it.
46 "The meal must be eaten inside a house; take none of the meat outside the house. Don't break any of the bones.
47 The whole community of Israel must take part in this feast.
48 A foreigner who lives with you may share in the Lord's Passover if all the males in his house become circumcised. Then, since he will be like a citizen of Israel, he may share in the meal. But a man who is not circumcised may not eat the Passover meal.
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.