Hello and welcome. I hope you have your tea or coffee ready because this one is a long one. I will not be doing a re-cap on the entire passage so if you haven't read it yet please click here...1Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2"This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
The Lord then gave specific directions to them about getting,eating and burning a lamb and taking some of the blood and putting it over their doorways.
12'For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments--I am the LORD.
13'The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; 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'Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance
16'On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.
19'Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover lamb.
26"And when your children say to you, 'What does this rite mean to you?'
27you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes '" And the people bowed low and worshiped.
28Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
30Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
31Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the LORD, as you have said.
32"Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also."
37Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about (six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.
38A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
39They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
40Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
41And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
The beginning of Passover...
The Lamb, blood on the door posts, Death of the first born, Deliverance of a Hostile Country and the continuance of the Feast throughout Israel's history, all seem to have been intended of God to be a grand Historical Picture of Christ the Passover Lamb, and the Deliverance out of a Hostile World by His Blood! (Haley's Handbook)
Please join me in reading Exodus 13:1-22
