Study it in the app“The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no destroying plague will be among you when I strike the land of Egypt.”
The lamb's blood on the doorposts spares Israel on the night of PassoverThe Cross
The bloodהַדָּםshall beוְהָיָהa signלְאֹתfor youלָכֶםonעַלthe housesהַבָּתִּיםwhereאֲשֶׁר שָׁםyou are;אַתֶּםwhen I seeוְרָאִיתִיthe blood,אֶת הַדָּםI will pass overוּפָסַחְתִּיyou,עֲלֵכֶםand noוְלֹאdestroyingלְמַשְׁחִיתplagueנֶגֶףwill beיִהְיֶהamong youבָכֶםwhen I strikeבְּהַכֹּתִיthe landבְּאֶרֶץof Egypt.מִצְרָיִם
blood
The red fluid that runs through the body and carries the life of people and animals.
Where else “dam” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appearssign
A mark or signal that points to something.
Where else “ot” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “batim” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appearspass over
To skip over a house to protect it.
Where else “fasachti” appearsdestroyer
What destroys: a plague, a mountain or a power that devastates.
Where else “mashchit” appearsplague
A striking blow of judgment.
Where else “negef” appearspunish
God punishes with a plague.
Where else “hakoti” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears“I will pass over” (pasach) is the verb from which the name “Passover” (pesach) comes: God passed over the houses marked with the blood (12:23, 27).
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
12I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both people and animals; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am YHWH.
13 · This verse (above)
14This day shall be for you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to YHWH; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall celebrate it.
