Exodus 12:42

Nova Vulgata

Nox ista vigiliarum Domino, quando eduxit eos de terra Aegypti: hanc observare debent Domino omnes filii Israel in generationibus suis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Nox ista est observabilis Domino, quando eduxit eos de terra �gypti : hanc observare debent omnes filii Isra�l in generationibus suis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Nox ista est observabilis Domini, quando eduxit eos de terra �gypti: hanc observare debent omnes filii Isra�l in generationibus suis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a night to be much observed: Heb. a night of observations, observed. Exodus 12:14, Deuteronomy 16:1-6

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:3 - Remember Deuteronomy 7:8 - Lord brought Psalms 114:1 - Israel Romans 14:6 - regardeth it

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord,.... Or "a night of observations" t, in which many things are to be observed to the honour and glory of God, as done by him, wherein his power, wisdom, goodness, truth and faithfulness, are displayed; partly by the destruction of the Egyptian firstborn, and particularly

for bringing them, the children of Israel,

out from the land of Egypt: with the leave, and even pressing importunity of the Egyptians, and with so much wealth and riches, having found great favour in their sight, which was from the Lord:

this is that night of the Lord to be much observed of all the children of Israel in their generations in successive ages unto the coming of the Messiah, for the reasons before given; and the selfsame night is worthy the remembrance of all the spiritual Israel of God, of all true believers in Christ; for that very night after Christ had ate the passover with his disciples, he was betrayed by one of them; and to perpetuate the memory of this, and of his sufferings and death, an ordinance is appointed to be observed until his second coming, see

1 Corinthians 11:23, and the ancient Jews themselves have had some notion of the appearance of the Messiah at this time; for they not only expect his coming at the time of the passover, and speak of their redemption by him in the month of Nisan, as before observed on Exodus 12:14, but of this very night, among the four observable things in it, the fourth they say is, Moses shall go out of the midst of the wilderness, and the King Messiah out of Rome; so it is said in the Jerusalem Targum on the place.

t ליל שמרים "nox observantiarum", Munster, Fagius, Vatablus, so Drusius, Piscator, Cartwright, Ainsworth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 42. A night to be much observed — A night to be held in everlasting remembrance, because of the peculiar display of the power and goodness of God, the observance of which annually was to be considered a religious precept while the Jewish nation should continue.