The Passover

Exodus 12

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 f "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 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. 4 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. 5 Your lamb shall be h without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 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. 1

7 "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. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with k unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but l roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And m you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 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. 12 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. 13 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.

14 "This day shall be t for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a u statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 v Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, w that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a x holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for y on this very day I brought your z hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 a In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 b For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, b that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, c whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread."

21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves d according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of e hyssop and f dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch g the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. h None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 i For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on g the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and j will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, k as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And l when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?' 27 you shall say, m '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 n bowed their heads and worshiped.

28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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...
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Cross References
    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.
  14. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:28
    By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 13:9
    And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 12:17
    And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
    Exodus 12:24
    You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
    Exodus 12:43
    And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.
    Exodus 13:10
    You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.
    2 Kings 23:21
    And the king commanded all the people, "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.
  17. Cross References
    Exodus 13:6 - 7
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and ...
    Exodus 23:15
    You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. A...
    Exodus 34:18
    You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. S...
    Exodus 34:25
    You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice w...
    Leviticus 23:6
    And on the fifteenth day of the same month is t...
    Numbers 28:17
    And on the fifteenth day of this month is a fea...
    Deuteronomy 16:3
    You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven ...
    Deuteronomy 16:8
    For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, an...
    1 Corinthians 5:7 - 8
    Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a ne...
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 17:14
    Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
    Numbers 9:13
    But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord 's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
  19. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:7 - 8
    On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.
    Numbers 28:18
    On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
    Numbers 28:25
    And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
  20. Cross References
    Exodus 13:3
    Then Moses said to the people, "Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
  21. Cross References
    Exodus 12:51
    And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
    Exodus 7:4
    Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
  22. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:5
    In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord 's Passover.
    Numbers 28:16
    On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord 's Passover.
  23. Cross References
    Exodus 12:15
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
  24. Cross References
    Exodus 12:15
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
  25. Cross References
    Exodus 12:48 - 49
    If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
  26. Cross References
    Exodus 12:3
    Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
  27. Cross References
    Leviticus 14:6
    He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
    Numbers 19:18
    Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.
    Psalms 51:7
    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
    Hebrews 9:19
    For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
  28. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:28
    By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
  29. Cross References
    Exodus 12:7
    Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
  30. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:20
    Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.
  31. Cross References
    Exodus 12:12 - 13
    For 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 all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
  32. 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.
  33. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:28
    By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
    Ezekiel 9:6
    Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.
    Revelation 7:3
    Saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
    Revelation 9:4
    They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
  34. Cross References
    Exodus 3:8
    And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
    Exodus 3:17
    And I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."
  35. Cross References
    Exodus 13:8
    You shall tell your son on that day, 'It is bec...
    Exodus 13:14
    And when in time to come your son asks you, 'Wh...
    Deuteronomy 6:20
    "When your son asks you in time to come, 'What ...
    Deuteronomy 32:7
    Remember the days of old; consider the years of...
    Joshua 4:6
    That this may be a sign among you. When your ch...
    Joshua 4:21
    And he said to the people of Israel, "When your...
    Psalms 78:3 - 6
    Things that we have heard and known, that our f...
  36. Cross References
    Exodus 12:11
    In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord 's Passover.
    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.
  37. Cross References
    Exodus 4:31
    And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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