Full Ex 12:7, 12:13, 12:22–23. Cross-linked with /featured/taw/passover-blood — the two pages treat the same passage from complementary angles: taw focuses on the geometric-shape reading, scarlet-thread focuses on the blood-as-thread continuity. Leading into Leviticus 17:11: "the life of the flesh is in the blood… I have given it to you upon the altar."
Passover Blood (Ex 12)
Blood on the doorposts; the Destroyer passes over.
Primary passage:Exodus 12:13 →
Commentary
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John Calvin
Commentaries
1. And the Lord spake. Although the institution of the Passover in some degree appertains to the Fourth Commandment, where the Sabbath and Feast-days will be treated of; yet, in so far as it was a solemn symbol of their redemption, whereby the people professed their obligation to God their…
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