Exodus 12:11

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God addresses Moses, Aaron, and the Israelite community immediately after detailing the lamb's selection and slaughter, just prior to the final plague striking Egypt.

The words — The Hebrew term חֲגֻרִים (cha.gu.Rim) translates literally as "girded" or "tightly bound," describing how the people must secure their loins. This stands alongside נַֽעֲלֵי/כֶם (na.'a.lei./Khem), "your sandals," to denote a state of immediate travel readiness.

The thread — The text explicitly ties the meal to the LORD's Passover (Exodus 12:11), a designation later used when instructing future generations to explain the rite (Exodus 12:27) and when identifying Christ as the Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Why it lands — The text commands eating in haste while standing fully dressed with staff and sandals, requiring the reader to treat the meal as an urgent, non-negotiable act of obedience rather than a leisurely feast.

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The Hebrew words

וְכָכָה֮ve./kha.Khahand/ thus תֹּאכְל֣וּto.khe.Luyou will eat אֹתוֹ֒'o.T/o<obj.>/ it מָתְנֵיכֶ֣םma.te.nei./Khemloins/ your חֲגֻרִ֔יםcha.gu.Rimgirded נַֽעֲלֵיכֶם֙na.'a.lei./Khemsandals/ your בְּרַגְלֵיכֶ֔םbe./rag.lei./Khemon/ feet/ your וּמַקֶּלְכֶ֖םu./ma.kel./Khemand/ staff/ your בְּיֶדְכֶ֑םbe./yed./Khemin/ hand/ your וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤םva./'a.khal.Temand/ you will eat אֹתוֹ֙'o.T/o<obj.>/ it בְּחִפָּז֔וֹןbe./chi.pa.Zonin/ haste פֶּ֥סַחPe.sach[is] a passover ה֖וּאhu'it לַיהוָֽה׃la./Yah.wehto/ Yahweh

King James Version

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.

Cross-references

Exodus 12:27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
Ephesians 6:15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
Leviticus 23:5 The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Numbers 28:16 The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Deuteronomy 16:2 You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
Matthew 26:19 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.