Speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house:
All Commentaries on Exodus 12:3 Go To Exodus 12
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Children; a word which has been dropped in the printed Hebrew and in the Chaldee, which has been assimilated to it, though found still in some manuscripts and in the Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac and Arabic versions. (Kennicott)
Day. This regarded only the present occasion. (Jonathan)
The Jews no longer eat the paschal lamb, as they are banished from Chanaan. (Calmet)
Man, who has a family sufficient to eat a lamb; Hebrew se, which means also a kid, (as either was lawful, ver. 13,) and perhaps also a calf, Deuteronomy xvi. 2.