Exodus 12:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Tell the people of Israel that on the tenth day of this month the head of each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for his family to eat.

Cross References

Genesis 4:4

and Abel also gave an offering to the LORD. He killed the firstborn lamb from one of his sheep and gave the LORD the best parts of it. The LORD was pleased with Abel and his offering,

2 Chronicles 35:7

Josiah donated thirty thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand bulls from his own flocks and herds for the people to offer as sacrifices.

Exodus 12:2

This month is to be the first month of the year for you.

Exodus 12:21

Moses called the leaders of Israel together and said: Each family is to pick out a sheep and kill it for Passover.

Exodus 12:4

If any family is too small to eat the whole animal, they must share it with their next door neighbours. Choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. And it must be large enough for everyone to have some of the meat.

Exodus 12:6

Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.

Exodus 14:15

The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you keep calling out to me for help? Tell the Israelites to move forward.

Exodus 20:19

and said to Moses, “If you speak to us, we will listen. But don't let God speak to us, or we will die!”

Exodus 4:30

and Aaron told them what the LORD had sent Moses to say. Then Moses worked the miracles for the people,

Exodus 6:6

Here is my message for Israel: “I am the LORD! And with my mighty power I will punish the Egyptians and free you from slavery.

Ezekiel 40:1

Twenty-five years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, and fourteen years after the Babylonians had captured Jerusalem, the LORD's power took control of me on the tenth day of the first month. The LORD showed me some visions in which I was carried to the top of a high mountain in Jerusalem. I looked to the south and saw what looked like a city full of buildings.

Leviticus 5:6

Then you must bring a female sheep or goat to me as the price for your sin. A priest will sacrifice the animal, and you will be forgiven.

Numbers 15:11

If you are a native Israelite, you must obey these rules each time you offer a bull, a ram, or a goat as a sacrifice.

John 1:29

The next day, John saw Jesus coming towards him and said: Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

John 1:36

When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Here is the Lamb of God!”

John 12:1

Six days before Passover Jesus went back to Bethany, where he had raised Lazarus from death.

John 12:12

The next day a large crowd was in Jerusalem for Passover. When they heard that Jesus was coming for the festival,

1 Corinthians 5:7

Get rid of the old yeast! Then you will be like fresh bread made without yeast, and that is what you are. Our Passover lamb is Christ, who has already been sacrificed.

Joshua 7:14

“Tomorrow morning everyone must gather near the place of worship. You will come forward tribe by tribe, and the LORD will show which tribe is guilty. Next, the clans in that tribe must come forward, and the LORD will show which clan is guilty. The families in that clan must come, and the LORD will point out the guilty family. Finally, the men in that family must come,

Revelation 13:8

The beast was worshipped by everyone whose name wasn't written before the time of creation in the book of the Lamb who was killed.

1 Samuel 7:9

Samuel begged the LORD to rescue Israel, then he sacrificed a young lamb to the LORD. Samuel had not even finished offering the sacrifice when the Philistines started to attack. But the LORD answered his prayer and made thunder crash all around them. The Philistines panicked and ran away.