Exodus 12:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the Lord will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you down.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was bringing destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

Job 14:13

O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Exodus 11:4

Moses said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘About midnight I will go out through Egypt.

Exodus 12:7

They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

Isaiah 26:20

Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

Ezekiel 9:4

and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Ezekiel 9:6

Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women, but touch no one who has the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the house.

1 Corinthians 10:10

And do not complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Hebrews 11:28

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Revelation 7:3

saying, “Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants of our God with a seal on their foreheads.”

Revelation 9:4

They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.