Exodus 12:13

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The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 11:28 : 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
  • Gen 17:11 : 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
  • 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
  • Exod 12:23 : 23 For the LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the LORD will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
  • Josh 2:12 : 12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the LORD’s name. Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. Give me a solemn pledge

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 12:20-24
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    90%

    20You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”

    21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them,“Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.

    22Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

    23For the LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the LORD will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

    24You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

  • Exod 12:10-12
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    87%

    10You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

    11This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.

    12I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD.

  • Exod 12:5-8
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    84%

    5Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

    6You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

    7They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

    8They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

  • Exod 12:26-27
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    81%

    26When your children ask you,‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’–

    27then you will say,‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,

  • Exod 12:29-30
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    29The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

    30Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.

  • Exod 12:14
    77%

    14This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the LORD– you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

  • Heb 11:28
    77%

    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

  • Exod 12:3
    75%

    3Tell the whole community of Israel,‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families– a lamb for each household.

  • Exod 13:14-16
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    14In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.

    15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

    16It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

  • Exod 12:42-43
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    74%

    42It was a night of vigil for the LORD to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the LORD for generations to come.

    43Participation in the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

  • Exod 12:1
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    1The Institution of the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

  • Exod 11:4-6
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    4Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

    5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

    6There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

  • Exod 13:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8You are to tell your son on that day,‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

    9It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

  • Exod 9:4
    72%

    4But the LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”

  • Num 9:12
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    12They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

  • Num 33:4
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    4Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them; the LORD also executed judgments on their gods.

  • Exod 10:12
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    12The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”

  • Exod 8:21-22
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    71%

    21If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

    22But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of this land.

  • Exod 12:17
    70%

    17So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your regiments out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

  • Exod 10:6
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    6They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.

  • Ps 135:8-9
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    8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

    9He performed awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

  • Exod 9:6
    70%

    6And the LORD did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

  • Exod 7:17
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    17This is what the LORD has said:“By this you will know that I am the LORD: I am going to strike the water of the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned into blood.

  • Exod 9:20
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    20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

  • Exod 6:13
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    13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

  • Josh 2:19
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    19Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

  • Heb 9:20
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    20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

  • Jer 43:11
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    11He will come and attack Egypt. Those who are destined to die of disease will die of disease. Those who are destined to be carried off into exile will be carried off into exile. Those who are destined to die in war will die in war.

  • Exod 7:19
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    19Then the LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt’s waters– over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs– so that it becomes blood.’ There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”