Exodus 12:11-21

The Passover

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
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