lintell] Or, transome, or upper doore pst. This (as some conceive) was proper and peculiar to the first Passeover: (though some thinke otherwise) when their habitations were among the Egyptians: for before the Israelites came into Egypt, the land of Goshen was not without Inhabitants of that Nation: and when they came at the first, there was roome enough for the strangers, and old Inhabitants, and afterward their multiplication made a great mixture, not only in Goshen, but in other parts of Egypt also; especially, after the Israelites were made as common drudges to the whole Nation of the Egyptians. none of you shall goe out] The danger of death was in the houses, and there God would shew his favour to the Israelites, where he executed judgement upon the Egyptians: It might have beene dangerous for them, to have stirred out, having this command to keepe within doores, a command haply like that of the Lord, by the Prophet Esay, Come my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doores, hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment, untill the indignation be overpast, Isaiah 26:20. untill the morning] This sheweth they went not out of Egypt in the night (as some have conceived.)