Exodus 12:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every family must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.

Cross References

Genesis 22:8

“My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.” Then the two walked on together.

Genesis 4:4

while Abel, for his part, brought the fatty portion of the firstlings of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

2 Chronicles 35:7

Josiah contributed to the common people a flock of lambs and young goats, thirty thousand in number, each to serve as a Passover victim for all who were present, and also three thousand oxen; these were from the king’s property.

Exodus 12:2

This month will stand at the head of your calendar; you will reckon it the first month of the year.

Exodus 12:21

Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover victims.

Exodus 12:4

If a household is too small for a lamb, it along with its nearest neighbor will procure one, and apportion the lamb’s cost in proportion to the number of persons, according to what each household consumes.

Exodus 12:6

You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight.

Exodus 14:15

Then the Lord said to Moses: Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to set out.

Exodus 20:19

and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we shall die.”

Exodus 4:30

Aaron told them everything the Lord had said to Moses, and he performed the signs before the people.

Exodus 6:6

Therefore, say to the Israelites: I am the Lord. I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and will deliver you from their slavery. I will redeem you by my outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

Ezekiel 40:1

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, fourteen years after the city had been captured, on that very day the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me back there.

Leviticus 1:2

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any one of you brings an offering of livestock to the Lord, you shall bring your offering from the herd or from the flock.

Leviticus 5:6

and make reparation to the Lord for the wrong committed: a female animal from the flock, a ewe lamb or a she-goat, as a purification offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement on the individual’s behalf for the wrong.

Numbers 15:11

The same is to be done for each ox, ram, lamb or goat.

John 1:29

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

John 1:36

and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.”

John 12:1

Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

John 12:12

On the next day, when the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

1 Corinthians 5:7

Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.

Joshua 7:14

In the morning you must come forward by tribes. The tribe which the Lord designates shall come forward by clans; the clan which the Lord designates shall come forward by families; the family which the Lord designates shall come forward one by one.

Revelation 13:8

All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who was slain.

1 Samuel 7:9

Samuel therefore took an unweaned lamb and offered it whole as a burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.