Exodus 12:47 - On the “community” label

כׇּל־עֲדַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יַעֲשׂ֥וּ אֹתֽוֹ׃

The whole community of Israel* shall offer it.

*whole community of Israel Or the heads of its households, on everyone’s behalf.

(The above rendering and its footnote come from the RJPS translation, an adaptation of the NJPS translation.)


On the expression כׇּל־עֲדַת יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ and its use as a metonym, see the section “Gender and Figurative Language” in this introduction, pp. 3–4; and see my comment to 12:3.