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Selected Verse: Exodus 12:4 - King James

Verse         Translation Text
Ex 12:4 King James And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
if the household be too little for the lamb, &c.--It appears from JOSEPHUS that ten persons were required to make up the proper paschal communion.

every man according to his eating--It is said that the quantity eaten of the paschal lamb, by each individual, was about the size of an olive.
 
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