Exodus 12:50

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

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אַהֲרֹ֖ן

ʼAhărôwn

H175

“Aaron”

Noun, Proper

Appears 346× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 4:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of uncertain derivation

TWOT: 35

Aaron = "light bringer" - brother of Moses, a Levite and the first high priest

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

13: words
11: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
6 nouns
4 particles

Verb forms

וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֖וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
צִוָּ֧ה Piel · Perfect
עָשֽׂוּ Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֖וּ to do H6213 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 12:50 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts."
Exodus 7:4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Exodus 12:41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:1–2 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
Deuteronomy 12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that shall you observe to do: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Matthew 7:24–25 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

John 13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 12:50 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֖וּ כָּל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֶת מֹשֶׁ֥ה וְאֶֽת אַהֲרֹ֖ן כֵּ֥ן עָשֽׂוּ

Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 12:50 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ καθά ἐντέλλομαι κύριος ὁ μωυσῆς καί ααρων πρός αὐτός οὕτως ποιέω

And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron for them, so they did.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַעֲבָדוּ כָּל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל כְּמָא דִי פַקִיד יְיָ יָת משֶׁה וְיָת אַהֲרֹן כֵּן עֲבָדוּ:

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וַעֲבָדוּ כָּל בְּנֵי יִשְרָאֵל הֵיכְמָא דְפַּקִּיד יְיָ יַת משֶׁה וְיַת אַהֲרן הֵיכְדֵין עָבָדוּ

And all the sons of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 12:50 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

Ver. 50. So did they.] Very submissive they were at first; but it lasted not long, as the story showeth and the psalmist oft complaineth.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

Exo 12:50 closes the instructions concerning the Passover with the statement that the Israelites carried them out, viz., in after times (e.g., Num 9:5); and in Exo 12:51 the account of the exodus from Egypt is also brought to a close. All that Jehovah promised to Moses in Exo 6:6 and Exo 6:26 had now been fulfilled. But although v. 51 is a concluding formula, and so belongs to the account just closed, Abenezra was so far right in wishing to connect this verse with the commencement of the following chapter, that such concluding formulae generally serve to link together the different incidents, and therefore not only wind up what goes before, but introduce what has yet to come.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

50. Thus did, &c.] The words seem unsuitable where they stand; for as the passover had been already eaten (v. 28), the injunction given in vv. 43–49 could not possibly now be at once carried out. Perhaps (Di.) they were once preceded by vv. 14–20 (see on these verses).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Thus did all the children of Israeli.e. , the Israelites, at their first passover, acted in accordance with these precepts, especially in admitting to the feast all circumcised persons, whether natives or foreigners, and rejecting all the uncircumcised.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼAhărôwn (“Aaron”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Aaron” (ʼAhărôwn) shape what this verse is saying?
Exodus 6:26 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to do” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֖וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Keil & Delitzsch read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
“to do” occurs 2× in this single verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.