Bible Strands
Exodus 12:50
Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator reports the Israelites' response immediately after concluding the Passover regulations. This statement closes the account of the ritual observance and precedes the actual departure from Egypt.
The words — The phrase וַ/יַּֽעֲשׂ֖וּ (va/i.ya.'a.Su) translates literally as "and they did," while כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר (ka./'a.Sher) means "just as." These terms frame the collective action as a direct fulfillment of the preceding commands.
The thread — The narrative links this obedience to Exodus 6:26, where Yahweh commands Moses and Aaron to lead the people out, and Exodus 12:41, which marks the exact day the divisions departed. The text positions this compliance as the factual condition for the deliverance recorded in Exodus 12:51.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that collective action must align precisely with divine instruction before deliverance occurs. It requires the reader to note that obedience is presented as a historical fact, not a later theological ideal.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Cross-references
- Exodus 6:26 It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
- Exodus 7:4 Pharaoh 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.
- Exodus 12:41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 Hear 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.
- Deuteronomy 12:32 See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Matthew 28:20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
- John 13:17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.