Exodus 12:1-13
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The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
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f "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
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Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb g according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
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And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
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Your lamb shall be h without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
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and you shall keep it until the i fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
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"Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the j two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
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They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with k unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but l roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
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And m you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
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In this manner you shall eat it: with n your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. o It is the Lord's Passover.
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For p I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on q all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: r I am the Lord.
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s The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
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Cross References
Exodus 13:4
Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.
Exodus 34:18
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:21
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
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Cross References
Leviticus 22:19 - 21
If it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.
Deuteronomy 17:1
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Malachi 1:8
When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.
Malachi 1:14
Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:18
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of ...
Leviticus 23:5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of th...
Numbers 9:3
On the fourteenth day of this month, at twiligh...
Numbers 28:16
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the...
Joshua 5:10
While the people of Israel were encamped at Gil...
Ezra 6:19
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the r...
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Cross References
Exodus 12:22
Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
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Cross References
Exodus 23:18
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
Exodus 34:25
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.
Numbers 9:11
In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Deuteronomy 16:3
You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction - for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste - that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:7
And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
2 Chronicles 35:13
And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
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Cross References
Exodus 23:18
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
Exodus 29:34
And if any of the flesh for the ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
Exodus 34:25
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16:4
No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
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Cross References
Luke 12:35
Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning.
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness.
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:27
You shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the Lord 's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Leviticus 23:5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord 's Passover.
Deuteronomy 16:5
You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Corinthians 5:7
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
Exodus 11:4 - 5
So Moses said, "Thus says the Lord : About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt.
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Cross References
Numbers 33:4
While the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. On their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
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Exodus 6:2
God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the Lord.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.
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Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
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