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Exodus 12

Ex. 12:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they shall eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
the flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
in that night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
, roast
tsaliy (Hebrew #6748)
roasted
KJV usage: roast.
Pronounce: tsaw-lee'
Origin: passive participle of 6740
with fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
, andd unleavened bread
matstsah (Hebrew #4682)
properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)
KJV usage: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
Pronounce: mats-tsaw'
Origin: from 4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness
; and with bitter
mror (Hebrew #4844)
from 4843; a bitter herb
KJV usage: bitter(-ness).
Pronounce: mer-ore'
Origin: or mrowr {mer-ore'}
herbs they shall eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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eat the.
roast.
unleavened.
Ex. 13:3,7• 3And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
7Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
(Ex. 13:3,7)
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Ex. 34:25• 25Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. (Ex. 34:25)
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Num. 9:11• 11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. (Num. 9:11)
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Deut. 16:3• 3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. (Deut. 16:3)
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Amos 4:5• 5And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. (Amos 4:5)
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Matt. 16:12• 12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. (Matt. 16:12)
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1 Cor. 5:6‑8• 6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
(1 Cor. 5:6‑8)
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Gal. 5:9• 9A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. (Gal. 5:9)
with bitter.
 {v.8-11} In the passover was added, as it had the character of first deliverance and forgiveness, the bitter herbs of judgment of sin in ourselves, and feeding on the slain Lamb, with loins girded and shoes on our feet, to leave the place of sin and judgment from which as the consequence of sin we had been fully sheltered. (Exodus 5-13 by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbse shall they eat it.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "bitterness."