13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
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Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)Moses and Aaron here receive of the Lord what they were afterwards to deliver to the people concerning the ordinance of the passover, to which is prefixed an order for a new style to be observed in their months ( Exod. 12:1 , 2 ): This shall be to you the beginning of months . They had hitherto begun their year from the middle of September, but henceforward they were to begin it from the middle of…
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