22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)I. Moses is here, as a faithful steward in God’s house, teaching the children of Israel to observe all things which God had commanded him ; and no doubt he gave the instructions as largely as he received them, though they are not so largely recorded. It is here added, 1. That this night, when the first-born were to be destroyed, no Israelite must stir out of doors till morning , that is, till towa…
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