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Exodus 12:7
Exodus 12:7 is verse 7 of Exodus chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
Literally on the two doorposts and on the lintel; similarly in verses 22 and 23
King James Version
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
World English Bible
They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
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Exodus 12:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
7 They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
8 They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 12:22Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
Exodus 12:23When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
Hebrews 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
Hebrews 9:22According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Hebrews 10:14because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
Hebrews 10:29How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 11:28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israel’s own firstborn.
1 Peter 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.