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Exodus 12:22

And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Hyssop; Hebrew ezob: which some translate rosemary. (Menochius) Sprinkle This sprinkling the doors of the Israelites with the blood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the sword of the destroying angel, was a lively figure of our redemption by the blood of Christ. (Challoner) St. Jerome, in Isaias lxvi, says the doors were to be sprinkled in the form of a cross.

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