Exodus 12:21
Good News Translation
Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them, "Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it, so that your families can celebrate Passover.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover lamb.

Contemporary English Version
Moses called the leaders of Israel together and said: Each family is to pick out a sheep and kill it for Passover.

New American Bible
Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover victims.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.

elders

Exodus 3:16 Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

Exodus 17:5 And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.

Exodus 19:7 Moses came; and calling together the elders of the people, he declared all the words which the Lord had commanded.

Numbers 11:16 And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee,

and take

Exodus 12:3 Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.

Numbers 9:2-5 Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time, . . .

Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho:

2 Kings 23:21 And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.

2 Chronicles 30:15-17 And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord. . . .

2 Chronicles 35:5,6 And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi. . . .

Ezra 6:20 For all the priests and the Levites were purified as one man: all were clean to kill the phase for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and themselves.

Matthew 26:17-19 And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? . . .

Mark 14:12-16 Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch? . . .

Luke 22:7 And the day of the unleavened bread came, on which it was necessary that the pasch should be killed.

1 Corinthians 10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

lamb, or kid

Exodus 12:3 Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.

the passover.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

Context
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
20You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread. 21And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.22And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:28
By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.

Exodus 12:3
Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.

Exodus 12:11
And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste; for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.

Exodus 12:20
You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.

Numbers 9:4
And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase.

Exodus 12:20
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