Êxodo 12:21-30

A Décima Praga: A Morte dos Primogênitos

21 Então Moisés convocou todas as autoridades de Israel e lhes disse: “Escolham um cordeiro ou um cabrito para cada família. Sacrifiquem-no para celebrar a Páscoa!

22 Molhem um feixe de hissopo no sangue que estiver na bacia e passem o sangue na viga superior e nas laterais das portas. Nenhum de vocês poderá sair de casa até o amanhecer.

23 Quando o SENHOR passar pela terra para matar os egípcios, verá o sangue na viga superior e nas laterais da porta e passará sobre aquela porta, e não permitirá que o destruidor entre na casa de vocês para matá-los.

24 “Obedeçam a essas instruções como decreto perpétuo para vocês e para os seus descendentes.

25 Quando entrarem na terra que o SENHOR prometeu dar a vocês, celebrem essa cerimônia.

26 Quando os seus filhos perguntarem: ‘O que significa esta cerimônia?’,

27 respondam-lhes: É o sacrifício da Páscoa ao SENHOR, que passou sobre as casas dos israelitas no Egito e poupou nossas casas quando matou os egípcios”. Então o povo curvou-se em adoração.

28 Depois os israelitas se retiraram e fizeram conforme o SENHOR tinha ordenado a Moisés e a Arão.

29 Então, à meia-noite, o SENHOR matou todos os primogênitos do Egito, desde o filho mais velho do faraó, herdeiro do trono, até o filho mais velho do prisioneiro que estava no calabouço, e também todas as primeiras crias do gado.

30 No meio da noite o faraó, todos os seus conselheiros e todos os egípcios se levantaram. E houve grande pranto no Egito, pois não havia casa que não tivesse um morto.

Êxodo 12:21-30 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 12

This chapter begins with observing, that the month in which the above wonders were wrought in Egypt, and the following ordinance appointed to the Israelites, should hereafter be reckoned the first month in the year, Ex 12:1,2 on the tenth day of which a lamb here described was to be taken and kept till the fourteenth, and then slain, and its blood sprinkled on the posts of the houses of the Israelites, Ex 12:3-7, the manner of dressing and eating it is shown, Ex 12:8-11 and the reason of the institution of this ordinance being given, Ex 12:12-14, and an order to eat unleavened bread during seven days, in which the feast was to be kept, Ex 12:15-20, directions are also given for the immediate observance of it, and particularly about the sprinkling of the blood of the lamb, and the use of it, Ex 12:21-23, and this ordinance, which they were to instruct their children in, was to be kept by them in succeeding ages for ever, Ex 12:24-27 about the middle of the night it was first observed, all the firstborn in Egypt were slain, which made the Egyptians urgent upon the Israelites to depart in haste, Ex 12:28-33 and which they did with their unleavened dough, and with great riches they had borrowed of the Egyptians, Ex 12:34-36, the number of the children of Israel at the time of their departure, the mixed multitude and cattle that went with them, their baking their unleavened cakes, the time of their sojourning in Egypt, and of their coming out of it that night, which made it a remarkable one, are all particularly taken notice of, Ex 12:37-42, laws and rules are given concerning the persons that should partake of the passover, Ex 12:43-49 and the chapter is concluded with observing, that it was kept according to the command of God, and that it was on the same day it was first instituted and kept that Israel were brought out of Egypt, Ex 12:50,51.