The Passover
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Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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a "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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"Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the b tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
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'And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.
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'Your lamb shall be c without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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'Now you shall keep it until the d fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
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'And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
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'Then they shall eat the flesh on that e night; f roasted in fire, with g unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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'Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but h roasted in fire - its head with its legs and its entrails.
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i 'You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
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'And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. j It is the LORD's Passover.
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'For I k will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and l against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: m I am the LORD.
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'Now 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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'So this day shall be to you n a memorial; and you shall keep it as a o feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast p by an everlasting ordinance.
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q 'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, r that person shall be cut off from Israel.
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'On the first day there shall be s a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat - that only may be prepared by you.
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'So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for t on this same day I will have brought your armies u out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.
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v 'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
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'For w seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
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'You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.' "
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Then x Moses called for all the y elders of Israel and said to them, z "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
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a "And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and b strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
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c "For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the d blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and e not allow f the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
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"And you shall g observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever.
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"It will come to pass when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, h just as He promised, that you shall keep this service.
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i "And it shall be, when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'
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"that you shall say, j 'It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.' " So the people k bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Then the children of Israel went away and l did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
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Cross References
Exodus 13:4
On this day you are going out, in the month Abib.
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty).
Exodus 34:18
The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of 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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Joshua 4:19
Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
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Leviticus 22:18 - 21
Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the chi...
Leviticus 23:12
And you shall offer on that day, when you wave ...
Malachi 1:8
And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, Is...
Malachi 1:14
But cursed be the deceiver Who has in his flock...
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who th...
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a ...
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Cross References
Exodus 12:14
So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you...
Exodus 12:17
So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Br...
Leviticus 23:5
On the fourteenth day of the first month at twi...
Numbers 9:1 - 3
Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness o...
Numbers 9:11
On the fourteenth day of the second month, at t...
Numbers 28:16
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the...
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passove...
Deuteronomy 16:4
And no leaven shall be seen among you in all yo...
Deuteronomy 16:6
But at the place where the LORD your God choose...
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Cross References
Exodus 34:25
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
Numbers 9:12
They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.
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Deuteronomy 16:7
And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
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Deuteronomy 16:3
You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
Deuteronomy 16:4
And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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Deuteronomy 16:7
And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.
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Cross References
Exodus 16:19
And Moses said, "Let no one leave any of it till morning.
Exodus 23:18
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.
Exodus 34:25
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
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Exodus 12:13
Now 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:21
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
Exodus 12:27
That you shall say, 'It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.' " So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Exodus 12:43
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.
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Exodus 11:4
Then Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt.
Exodus 11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals.
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Numbers 33:4
For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them. Also on their gods the LORD had executed judgments.
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Exodus 6:2
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: "I am the LORD.
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Exodus 13:9
It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD's law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
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Leviticus 23:4
These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
Leviticus 23:5
On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passover.
2 Kings 23:21
Then the king commanded all the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:17
So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.
Exodus 12:24
And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever.
Exodus 13:10
You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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Cross References
Exodus 13:6
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and ...
Exodus 13:7
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And...
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (y...
Exodus 34:18
The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. S...
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 the f...
Deuteronomy 16:3
You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven ...
Deuteronomy 16:8
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on...
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Genesis 17:14
"And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."
Exodus 12:19
For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
Numbers 9:13
But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
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Leviticus 23:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.
Leviticus 23:7
On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.
Leviticus 23:8
'But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'"
Numbers 28:18
On the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
Numbers 28:25
And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work.
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Exodus 12:14
So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Exodus 13:3
And Moses said to the people: "Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
Exodus 13:10
You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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Numbers 33:1
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Exodus 12:2
This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Leviticus 23:5 - 8
On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passover.
Numbers 28:16 - 25
On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD.
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Exodus 12:15
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 23:15
You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty).
Exodus 34:18
The Feast of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
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Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
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Exodus 3:16
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt.
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Exodus 12:3
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying...
Numbers 9:4
So Moses told the children of Israel that they ...
Joshua 5:10
Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, an...
2 Kings 23:21
Then the king commanded all the people, saying,...
Ezra 6:20
For the priests and the Levites had purified th...
Mark 14:12 - 16
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when ...
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Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
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Exodus 12:7
And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
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Exodus 11:4
Then Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: 'About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt.
Exodus 12:12
For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
Exodus 12:13
Now 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 24:8
And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words.
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Ezekiel 9:6
Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
Revelation 7:3
Saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
Revelation 9:4
They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
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1 Corinthians 10:10
Nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:14
So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Exodus 12:17
So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.
Exodus 13:5
And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Exodus 13:10
You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17
"and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
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Exodus 10:2
"and that you may tell in the hearing of your s...
Exodus 13:8
"And you shall tell your son in that day, sayin...
Exodus 13:14
So it shall be, when your son asks you in time ...
Exodus 13:15
'And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn...
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...
Psalms 78:6
That the generation to come might know them, Th...
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Exodus 12:11
And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.
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Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
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