Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- KJV Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
- NKJV Thus all the children of Israel did; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- NASB Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
- NLT So all the people of Israel followed all the Lord’s commands to Moses and Aaron.
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Quick answer
All the Israelites did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Overview
Once again Israel's obedience is noted: they keep the Passover ordinances as instructed. This refrain of compliance highlights the faith that receives and acts on God's word. Their obedient observance, framing the deliverance, models the responsive trust by which God's people lay hold of His salvation and order their worship according to His command.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
- Exod 6:26It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
- Exod 12:41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
- Exod 7:4Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
- Deut 4:1–2Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- Deut 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Matt 7:24–25Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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Christ at the center
The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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