SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:26
Y cuando os dijeren vuestros hijos: ¿Qué es este vuestro servicio?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:26
Verse 26. What mean ye by this service?] The establishment of this service annually was a very wise provision to keep up in remembrance this wonderful deliverance. From the remotest antiquity the institution of feasts, games, &c., has been used to keep up the memory of past grand events. Hence God instituted the Sabbath, to keep up the remembrance of the creation; and the passover to keep up the remembrance of the deliverance from Egypt. All the other feasts were instituted on similar reasons. The Jews never took their sons to the tabernacle or temple till they were twelve years of age, nor suffered them to eat of the flesh of any victim till they had themselves offered a sacrifice at the temple, which they were not permitted to do before the twelfth year of their age. It was at this age that Joseph and Mary took our blessed Lord to the temple, probably for the first time, to offer his sacrifice. See Calmet.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 21-28 - That night, when the first-born were to be destroyed, no Israelite mus stir out of doors till called to march out of Egypt. Their safety wa owing to the blood of sprinkling. If they put themselves from under the protection of that, it was at their peril. They must stay within, to wait for the salvation of the Lord; it is good to do so. In after-time they should carefully teach their children the meaning of this service It is good for children to ask about the things of God; they that as for the way will find it. The keeping of this solemnity every year was 1. To look backward, that they might remember what great things God ha done for them and their fathers. Old mercies, to ourselves, or to ou fathers, must not be forgotten, that God may be praised, and our fait in him encouraged. 2. It was designed to look forward, as an earnest of the great sacrifice of the Lamb of God in the fulness of time. Chris our passover was sacrificed for us; his death was our life.
Original Hebrew
והיה 1961 כי 3588 יאמרו 559 אליכם 413 בניכם 1121 מה 4100 העבדה 5656 הזאת׃ 2063
