What Does Exodus 12:7 Mean in the King James?

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

Exodus 12:7 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

The blood marks the entrance of the house where the lamb is eaten, so the sign of deliverance and the meal belong to one dwelling.

THE MEANING

The entrance bears the sign of deliverance, and the lamb is eaten inside; the boundary and the table stay in the same scene. The verse speaks now of release from danger and nourishment held together within one home.

THE ROOT

וְנָתְנוּ

ve-natnu

GROWS FROM

נתן

To give, set, or place.

“strike” in this verse is ve-natnu. The blood is given a place on the doorway by a verb whose root also means to give. The root holds placing and giving together, making the sign a deliberate presence at the house’s boundary.

ALSO GROWS

netinah: Giving; a gift or donation.

נְתִינָה

This branch keeps the sense of giving visible within the same root family as the blood being placed at the entrance.

mattanah: Gift.

מַתָּנָה

The shared root links the act of setting something in place with what is given; here, the blood is placed as the household’s sign.

THE PATTERN

The blood of the Passover lamb marks a boundary between destruction and the life gathered within.

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:13 · KJVThe blood on the houses is named as the visible token by which destruction passes over them.

Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

Hebrews 11:28 · KJVThe verse connects the Passover and the sprinkling of blood with protection from the destroyer.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1 Corinthians 5:7 · KJVThe Passover lamb’s sacrifice remains an image of deliverance, now named through the anointed one.

THE THREAD

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9:13 · KJV

Exodus 12:7 uses ⁨וְנָתְנוּ⁩ (ve-natnu), from ⁨נתן⁩ (natan, give, set, place), for the blood placed on the doorway. Genesis 9:13 uses that same root for the bow set in the cloud as a covenant sign; in both, a visible placement carries the sign.

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