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Exodus 12:1-2 Adonai said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.”
Nissin (1st month) Spring – 1st of Months – Pesach (Passover)
Tishrei (7th Month) Fall – 1st of Year – Rosh Hashanah (Trumpets)
Exodus 34:22 “And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks [Chag Shavuot], (that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest), and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
Exodus 12:3-4 “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. 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.”
Avoiding Extremes:
No-one goes hungry = The Lamb satisfies
Nothing is wasted = The Lamb is valued
Exodus 12:5-6 “Your lamb shall be (a) without blemish, (b) a male (c) a year old. (d) You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and (e) you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when (f) the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs (g) between the evenings.”
* Luke 23:4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, “I find no fault in this man.”
Exodus 12:7-10 “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. 8 They shall (a) eat the flesh that night, (b) roasted on the fire; (c) with unleavened bread and (d) bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 (e) Do not eat any of it raw (f) or boiled in water, but roasted, (g) its head (h) with its legs (i) and its inner parts. 10 And you shall (j) let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.”
*Luke 12:1 …He began to say to His disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.”
Exodus 12:11 “In this manner you shall eat it: (a) with your belt fastened, (b) your sandals on your feet, and (c) your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is Adonai’s Passover.”
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 Adonai. 13 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.”
“sign” אות (ot)
Genesis 28:17 And [Jacob] was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Exodus 12:14-15 “This day shall be for you a remembrance day and you shall keep it as a feast to Adonai. Throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 Seven days you shall eat matzot (מצות). 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.”
Exodus 12:16-20 “On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days, except what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 And you shall guard the matzot, 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. 18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat matzot until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, 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 matzot.”
Exodus 12:21-28 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. 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. 23 For Adonai will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, Adonai will pass over the door and 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 Adonai will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Adonai’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. 28 Then the people of Israel went and did so. As Adonai had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Matthew 26:17-19 Now on the first day of Matzot the disciples came to Yeshua, saying, “Where will You have us prepare for You to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.’” And the disciples did as Yeshua had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.
The Pesach Lamb
BLOOD
Sign on the outside of the house
Seen by God / Provides LIFE / Passes from Death to Life
Provides FORGIVENESS for what we have done = A one-time event
BODY
Meal eaten inside the house
Eaten by men / Provides STRENGTH / Passes from Slavery to Freedom
Provides DELIVERANCE from what I am = Recurring event
Luke 22:19 And He took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”
REFERENCES:
Verse 6
“Between the evenings” is considered a time of ambiguity when divine strictness (judgment) and mercy are bridged. It is seen as a time of spiritual transition. Mystically, this period is viewed as a “neutral” time that belongs to neither day nor night, or both simultaneously. It symbolizes the blurring of boundaries between deed and reward, or achievement and satisfaction, where mutually exclusive worlds are merged into one.
Verse 8
1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. 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.
Verse 13
Exodus 21:5-6 “But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.”
Verse 22
Leviticus 14:4-7 The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. 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. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.