Exodus 12:25

When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites at the Passover threshold in Egypt, instructing them on future observance. He speaks as God’s appointed mediator, framing the ritual as a lasting command before the exodus begins.

The words — תָבֹאוּ אֶל־הָאָרֶץ (ta.Vo.'u 'el-ha.'A.retz) translates literally as “you will come into the land.” It shifts the command from a present act to a future territorial reality.

The thread — The land promise appears in Exodus 3:8 and Exodus 3:17 as God’s initial pledge to deliver Israel. Deuteronomy 4:5 later ties the keeping of these statutes directly to settlement in that territory.

Why it lands — The text requires the community to maintain the Passover service upon entering Canaan. Readers must treat the ritual as a binding inheritance linked to the fulfillment of God’s territorial promise.

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The Hebrew words

וְהָיָ֞הve./ha.Yahand/ it will be כִּֽי־ki-that תָבֹ֣אוּta.Vo.'uyou will come אֶל־'el-into הָאָ֗רֶץha./'A.retzthe/ land אֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.Sherwhich יִתֵּ֧ןyi.Tenhe will give יְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehלָכֶ֖םla./Khemto <the>/ youכַּאֲשֶׁ֣רka./'a.Sherjust/ as דִּבֵּ֑רdi.Berhe said וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖םu./she.mar.Temand/ you will keep אֶת־'et-<obj.>הָעֲבֹדָ֥הha./'a.vo.Dahthe/ service הַזֹּֽאת׃ha./Zot<the>/ this

King James Version

And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

Cross-references

Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Deuteronomy 4:5 See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 12:8 You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
Deuteronomy 16:5 You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
Joshua 5:10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.