◄ Hebrews 11:28 ►
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Good News Translation
It was faith that made him establish the Passover and order the blood to be sprinkled on the doors, so that the Angel of Death would not kill the first-born sons of the Israelites.

New Revised Standard Version
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
His faith also made him celebrate Passover. He sprinkled the blood of animals on the doorposts, so that the first-born sons of the people of Israel would not be killed by the destroying angel.

New American Bible
By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.

he kept.

Exodus 12:3-14,21-30 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 sprinkling.

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.

Exodus 12:7,13,23 And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. . . .

1 Peter 1:2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

Context
The Faith of Moses
…27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured, as seeing him that is invisible. 28By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them. 29By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:13
And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you; and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:21
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.

Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.

Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Hebrews 11:27
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