Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. New Living Translation That same night they must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast. English Standard Version They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Berean Standard Bible They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. King James Bible And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. New King James Version Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. New American Standard Bible They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. NASB 1995 They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. NASB 1977 ‘And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Legacy Standard Bible And they shall eat the flesh that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Amplified Bible They shall eat the meat that same night, roasted in fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Christian Standard Bible They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Holman Christian Standard Bible They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. American Standard Version And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And they will eat the flesh in this night when roasted in fire; they shall eat it and unleavened bread with bitter herbs. Brenton Septuagint Translation And they shall eat the flesh in this night roast with fire, and they shall eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs. Contemporary English Version That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs and thin bread made without yeast. Douay-Rheims Bible And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce. English Revised Version And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. GOD'S WORD® Translation The meat must be eaten that same night. It must be roasted over a fire and eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread. Good News Translation That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast. International Standard Version That very night they're to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. JPS Tanakh 1917 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Literal Standard Version And they have eaten the flesh in this night, a roast with fire; they eat it with unleavened things and bitters; Majority Standard Bible They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. New American Bible They will consume its meat that same night, eating it roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. NET Bible They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs. New Revised Standard Version They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. New Heart English Bible They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. Webster's Bible Translation And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire; and unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. World English Bible They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. Young's Literal Translation 'And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The First Passover…7They 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. 8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9Do 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.… Cross References 1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth. Exodus 12:9 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. Exodus 34:25 Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning. Numbers 9:11 Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; Numbers 9:12 they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes. Deuteronomy 16:3 You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste--so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. Deuteronomy 16:4 No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning. Treasury of Scripture And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. eat the Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. John 6:52-57 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? … roast Deuteronomy 16:7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. unleavened Exodus 13:3,7 And 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… Exodus 34:25 Thou 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. Numbers 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. with bitter Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. Numbers 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Jump to Previous Bitter Bitter-Tasting Bread Cooked Eat Eaten Fire Flesh Food Herbs Lamb Meat Night Oven Plants Roast Roasted Together Unleavened YeastJump to Next Bitter Bitter-Tasting Bread Cooked Eat Eaten Fire Flesh Food Herbs Lamb Meat Night Oven Plants Roast Roasted Together Unleavened YeastExodus 12 1. The beginning of the year is changed3. The Passover is instituted 11. The import of the rite of the Passover 15. Unleavened bread 29. The firstborn are slain 31. The Israelites are driven out of the land 37. They come to Succoth 41. The time of their sojourning 43. The ordinance of the Passover (8) Roast with fire.--Roasting is the simplest, the easiest, and the most primitive mode of cooking meat. It was also the only mode open to all the Hebrews, since the generality would not possess cauldrons large enough to receive an entire lamb. Further, the requirement put a difference between this and other victims, which were generally cut up and boiled (1Samuel 2:14-15). Unleavened bread . . . bitter herbs.--As partaking of the lamb typified feeding on Christ, so the putting away of leaven and eating unleavened bread signified the putting away of all defilement and corruption ere we approach Christ to feed on Him (1Corinthians 5:8). As for the bitter herbs, they probably represented "self-denial" or "repentance"--fitting concomitants of the holy feast, where the Lamb of God is our food. At any rate, they were a protest against that animalism which turns a sacred banquet into a means of gratifying the appetite (1Corinthians 11:20-22). Verse 8. - Roast with fire. The meat of sacrificial meals was commonly boiled by the Hebrews (1 Samuel 2:14, 15). The command to roast the Paschal lamb is accounted for:1. By its being a simpler and quicker process than boiling; 2. By a special sanctity being regarded as attaching to fire; 3. By the difficulty of cooking the animal whole unless it were roasted. Justin Martyr's statement that for roasting two wooden spits were required, placed at right angles the one to the other, and thus extending the victim on a cross, will seem to many a better ground for the direction than any of these. And unleavened bread. See below, ver. 18. With bitter herbs. Literally, "with bitternesses." That herbs, or vegetables of some kind, are intended, there is no reasonable doubt. The Mishna enumerates endive, chicory, wild lettuce, and nettles among the herbs that might be eaten. It is a strange notion of Kurtz's, that the bitter herbs were a condiment, and "communicated a more agreeable flavour to the food." Undoubtedly they were a disagreeable accompaniment, and represented at once the bitterness of the Egyptian bondage (Exodus 1:14) and the need of self-denial, if we would feed on Christ. Hebrew They are to eatוְאָכְל֥וּ (wə·’ā·ḵə·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 398: To eat the meat הַבָּשָׂ֖ר (hab·bā·śār) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man that הַזֶּ֑ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that night, בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (bal·lay·lāh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity roasted צְלִי־ (ṣə·lî-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6748: Roasted, a roast over the fire, אֵ֣שׁ (’êš) Noun - common singular Strong's 784: A fire along with unleavened bread וּמַצּ֔וֹת (ū·maṣ·ṣō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 4682: Sweetness, sweet, an unfermented cake, loaf, the festival of Passover and bitter herbs. מְרֹרִ֖ים (mə·rō·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4844: Bitter thing, bitter herb Links Exodus 12:8 NIVExodus 12:8 NLT Exodus 12:8 ESV Exodus 12:8 NASB Exodus 12:8 KJV Exodus 12:8 BibleApps.com Exodus 12:8 Biblia Paralela Exodus 12:8 Chinese Bible Exodus 12:8 French Bible Exodus 12:8 Catholic Bible OT Law: Exodus 12:8 They shall eat the flesh in that (Exo. 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