#Exodus 12

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.

12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. 15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”

21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. 23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. 26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. 28 The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.

29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. 30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

The Exodus

31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. 32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”

33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!” 34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. 35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 39 With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.

40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt. 42 Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.

Passover Restrictions

43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal:

“No foreigner may eat it. 44 Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him, 45 but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.

46 “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones. 47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

48 “A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it. 49 The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”

50 All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions. — Exodus 12 | New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Genesis 15:14; Genesis 17:12-13; Genesis 24:53; Genesis 39:21; Genesis 47:11; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 4:23; Exodus 4:31; Exodus 6:1-2; Exodus 6:26; Exodus 10:2; Exodus 10:9; Exodus 13:3-4; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 13:9-10; Exodus 16:1; Exodus 16:19; Exodus 29:13; Numbers 9:4; Deuteronomy 11:20; 1 Samuel 5:12; Psalm 51:7; Matthew 13:33; Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:1; Luke 2:41; Luke 2:43; John 19:31; John 19:33; John 19:36; Acts 7:6; Acts 7:36; Acts 13:17; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 11:27-28; Jude 1:5

The Passover

Key Passages in Exodus 12

1. The beginning of the year is changed 3. The Passover is instituted 11. The import of the rite of the Passover 15. Unleavened bread 29. The firstborn are slain 31. The Israelites are driven out of the land 37. They come to Succoth 41. The time of their sojourning 43. The ordinance of the Passover

[andrewpcannon]

Daily Devotional: Exodus 12:1-13

God instructs the Israelites to eat a passover lamb and spread its blood on their doorposts as a sign of redemption, a sign to the people. We know that God is going to smite the Egyptian firstborn (except for Pharaoh himself) about midnight of the night Moses left his presence for the final time (Genesis 10:29-11:8). Now, God is instructing Israel to take a lamb and keep it until the fourteenth…

[re4med]

Daily Prayer for September 24, 2024: 1 Peter 5:7

Prayer: Our most glorious and gracious Father in heaven, we come to you in prayer this morning through the name of the only mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. We thank you for this privilege and joy to commune with the Creator of all things. We know this blessing comes with a great cost paid by the blood of the Great High Priest, your Son, the Lord Jesus. We are humbled that it…

[coreofthebible]

The Biblical Calendar and Passover

Although it has been a while since the last installment of this podcast, we are going to be taking a slight detour from our study of the titles for God’s people to discuss the biblical holiday of Passover. At the time this podcast is issued, we are in the season of Passover. Why is this significant, and why should believers today understand the biblical calendar and the feast days? Most…

[paulthepoke]

Preview: God’s Spring Appointed Holidays 5784/2024

Jesus was resurrected on First Fruits. He is the First Fruits or barley offering before God the Father. He is the High Priest who intervenes on our behalf for sin. He is the perfect offering.

There are seven God appointed holidays communicated through the Old Testament Law. The first three spring holidays were fulfilled on the appointed holiday by Jesus Himself. The names of the feasts are: Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits. In the Hebrew year 5784 or the Gregorian calendar year of 2024, the appointments occur as follows. Passover essentially begins at sunset on Monday,…

[biblebloodhound]

There Are Consequences to Injustice (Exodus 12:29-42)

“A horse may run quickly but it cannot escape its tail.” Russian proverb

Exodus Out of Egypt, by Rivka Lemberg At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house…

[fardell24b]

Church notes - 16th July 2023

16th Communion Exodus 12:21 - 23

Sermon Purpose Matthew 22:36 - 50 Matthew 28:19, 20

Worship Discipleship Evangelism Fellowship Demonstrate God's love

To Worship God A reset. It resets our focus to be on Him.

Psalm 116

Psalm 73

vs 2 Bad people appearing to prosper

vs 11 People mocking God and seeming to do well despite their warped worldview.

vs 17 Entering the sanctuary of God. Their focus is off their preoccupations and on God. A new reality.

vs 18 The other people are on slippery ground.

We need to be on a stable ground.

Things can change in an instant.

Worshipping God and seeing His love and mercy in our lives God is worthy of being worshipped.

Selfishness is a barrier to worship.

1. Worship is my response to God's love. He sent His Son to die for us. 2. Worship is giving back to God. 3. Worship expressing affection to God. Hosea 6 Exodus 34: God is passionate about His relationship to us. Romans 6:13 4. Worship is using my activities for God. Colossians 5:35 Romans 12:1

Turn every aspect of your lives over to God.

[kdmiller55]

Set Apart to Be Set Free

43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones. 47 All the…

[megamog]

Final Fantasy XII Week - Day 2: Esper

[wiirocku]

Exodus 20:12 (NLT) - “Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

[platypusisnotonfire]

I am doing perhaps the most hilariously overboard and unnecessary world-building thing (probably not the most….creating 5 accurate conlangs based on languages from 800ad merging and gaining specific vocabulary from 2000 years of life in very different planets is probably up there since that took a year and I only referenced one of them in the actual book… but that was a different book/universe)

I am currently making MANY spreadsheets of duty rosters to logistically make Exodus Terminal run with 53 people and still have scouting missions happening. Every department has its own sheet and all 53 characters have their own sheet to describe exactly where everyone is at any given point in time. There’s also a « crew by alphabetical order » sheet and a « crew by rank » sheet to help inform the choices of where people best slot in.

[transpidergwen]

can we talk about how awesome Pythia was for a second? in the midst of a civilization ending civil war she left her people to document the journey of the 13th tribe for reasons unknown (unless they explained it in Caprica which I still haven't watched) but possibly in the hope that she could keep them tethered to the other 12 so they could one day reunite (which they frakking did!!) and not be lost to the stars forever. And then, after following them on that journey (and I guess sticking around for a while to watch them reconstruct their society since she described the Temple of Aurora) she went on her own pilgrammage back across the universe and made the journey all the way back to the twelve colonies, possibly alone but almost definitely without jump drive technology, to bring back word that the 13th had made a new home.

I don't need another remake of Battlestar (or whatever they're doing over at Peacock, if that project is even still alive), but I would absolutely be seated for a prequel about that journey.

[andrewpcannon]

Daily Devotional: Exodus 12:42-51

God instructs Israel to observe the Passover. Non-Israelites are to abstain from observing Passover unless they become circumcised (i.e. legal citizens of Israel). Why? God has set national Israel apart as His own national people. There is a certain inherent danger in Judiazing or Hebrew Roots movements which cause Gentiles to break some laws by forcing them or making them feel as if they must…

[thestreamofconsciousness777]

In that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God: By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin…

“Now these are the names of Israel’s sons who came into Egypt with Jacob; each man and his household came: Reuʹben, Sim’e·on, Le’vi and Judah, Is’sa·char, Zeb’u·lun and Benjamin, Dan and Naph’ta·li, Gad and Ash’er. And all the souls who issued out of Jacob’s upper thigh came to be seventy souls, but Joseph was already in Egypt. Eventually Joseph died, and also all his brothers and all that generation. And the sons of Israel became fruitful and began to swarm; and they kept on multiplying and growing mightier at a very extraordinary rate, so that the land got to be filled with them.

In time there arose over Egypt a new king who did not know Joseph. And he proceeded to say to his people: “Look! The people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we are. Come on! Let us deal shrewdly with them, for fear they may multiply, and it must turn out that, in case war should befall us, then they certainly will also be added to those who hate us and will fight against us and go up out of the country.”

So they set over them chiefs of forced labor for the purpose of oppressing them in their burden-bearing; and they went building cities as storage places for Phar’aoh, namely, Pi’thom and Ra·am’ses. But the more they would oppress them, the more they would multiply and the more they kept spreading abroad, so that they felt a sickening dread as a result of the sons of Israel. Consequently the Egyptians made the sons of Israel slave under tyranny. And they kept making their life bitter with hard slavery at clay mortar and bricks and with every form of slavery in the field, yes, every form of slavery of theirs in which they used them as slaves under tyranny.

Later on the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, the name of one of whom was Shiph’rah and the name of the other Pu’ah, yes, he went so far as to say: “When YOU help the Hebrew women to give birth and YOU do see them on the stool for childbirth, if it is a son, YOU must also put it to death; but if it is a daughter, it must also live.” However, the midwives feared the [true] God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them, but they would preserve the male children alive. In time the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them: “Why is it YOU have done this thing, in that YOU preserved the male children alive?” In turn the midwives said to Phar’aoh: “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. Because they are lively, they have already given birth before the midwife can come in to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people kept growing more numerous and becoming very mighty. And it came about that because the midwives had feared the [true] God he later presented them with families. Finally Phar’aoh commanded all his people, saying: “Every newborn son YOU are to throw into the river Nile, but every daughter YOU are to preserve alive.”

Meantime, a certain man of the house of Le’vi went ahead and took a daughter of Le’vi. And the woman became pregnant and brought a son to birth. When she saw how good-looking he was, she kept him concealed for three lunar months. When she was no longer able to conceal him, she then took for him an ark of papyrus and coated it with bitumen and pitch and put the child in it and put it among the reeds by the bank of the river Nile. Further, his sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would be done with him.

After a while Phar’aoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the Nile River, and her female attendants were walking by the side of the Nile River. And she caught sight of the ark in the middle of the reeds. Immediately she sent her slave girl that she might get it. When she opened it she got to see the child, and here the boy was weeping. At that she felt compassion for him, although she said: “This is one of the children of the Hebrews.” Then his sister said to Pharʹaoh’s daughter: “Shall I go and specially call for you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?” So Phar’aoh’s daughter said to her: “Go!” At once the maiden went and called the child’s mother. Phar’aoh’s daughter then said to her: “Take this child with you and nurse him for me, and I myself shall give you your wages.” Accordingly the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew up. Then she brought him to Phar’aoh’s daughter, so that he became a son to her; and she proceeded to call his name Moses and to say: “It is because I have drawn him out of the water.”

Now it came about in those days, as Moses was becoming strong, that he went out to his brothers that he might look at the burdens they were bearing; and he caught sight of a certain Egyptian striking a certain Hebrew of his brothers. So he turned this way and that and saw there was nobody in sight. Then he struck the Egyptian down and hid him in the sand.

However, he went out on the following day and here there were two Hebrew men struggling with each other. So he said to the one in the wrong: “Why should you strike your companion?” At this he said: “Who appointed you as a prince and judge over us? Are you intending to kill me just as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses now got afraid and said: “Surely the thing has become known!”

Subsequently Phar’aoh got to hear of this thing, and he attempted to kill Moses; but Moses ran away from Phar’aoh that he might dwell in the land of Mid’i·an; and he took a seat by a well. Now the priest of Mid’i·an had seven daughters, and as usual they came and drew water and filled the gutters to water their father’s flock. And as usual the shepherds came and drove them away. At this Moses got up and helped the women out and watered their flock. So when they came home to Reu’el their father he exclaimed: “How is it YOU have come home so quickly today?” To this they said: “A certain Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and, besides, he actually drew water for us that he might water the flock.” Then he said to his daughters: “But where is he? Why is it that YOU have left the man behind? Call him, that he may eat bread.” After that Moses showed willingness to dwell with the man, and he gave Zip·po’rah his daughter to Moses. Later she bore a son and he called his name Ger’shom, because, he said: “An alien resident I have come to be in a foreign land.”

And it came about during those many days that the king of Egypt finally died, but the sons of Israel continued to sigh because of the slavery and to cry out in complaint, and their cry for help kept going up to the [true] God because of the slavery. In time God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So God looked on the sons of Israel and God took notice.

And Moses became a shepherd of the flock of Jeth’ro, the priest of Mid’i·an, whose son-in-law he was. While he was driving the flock to the west side of the wilderness, he came at length to the mountain of the [true] God, to Ho’reb. Then Jehovah’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a thornbush. As he kept looking, why, here the thornbush was burning with the fire and yet the thornbush was not consumed. At this Moses said: “Let me just turn aside that I may inspect this great phenomenon, as to why the thornbush is not burnt up.” When Jehovah saw that he turned aside to inspect, God at once called to him out of the midst of the thornbush and said: “Moses! Moses!” to which he said: “Here I am.” Then he said: “Do not come near here. Draw your sandals from off your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

And he went on to say: “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses concealed his face, because he was afraid to look at the [true] God. And Jehovah added: “Unquestionably I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their outcry as a result of those who drive them to work; because I well know the pains they suffer. And I am proceeding to go down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a land good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the locality of the Ca’naan·ites and the Hit’tites and the Am’or·ites and the Per’iz·zites and the Hi’vites and the Jeb’u·sites. And now, look! the outcry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have seen also the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. And now come and let me send you to Phar’aoh, and you bring my people the sons of Israel out of Egypt.”

However, Moses said to the [true] God: “Who am I that I should go to Phar’aoh and that I have to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” To this he said: “Because I shall prove to be with you, and this is the sign for you that it is I who have sent you: After you have brought the people out of Egypt, YOU people will serve the [true] God on this mountain.”

Nevertheless, Moses said to the [true] God: “Suppose I am now come to the sons of Israel and I do say to them, ‘The God of YOUR forefathers has sent me to YOU,’ and they do say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What shall I say to them?” At this God said to Moses: “I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL PROVE TO BE.” And he added: “This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to YOU.’” Then God said once more to Moses:

“This is what you are to say to the sons of Israel, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to YOU.’ This is my name to time indefinite, and this is the memorial of me to generation after generation. You go, and you must gather the older men of Israel, and you must say to them, ‘Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying: “I will without fail give attention to YOU and to what is being done to YOU in Egypt. And so I say, I shall bring YOU up out of affliction by the Egyptians to the land of the Ca’naan·ites and the Hit’tites and the Am’or·ites and the Per’iz·zites and the Hi’vites and the Jeb’u·sites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

“And they will certainly listen to your voice, and you must come, you and the older men of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and YOU men must say to him, ‘Jehovah the God of the Hebrews has come in touch with us, and now we want to go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we want to sacrifice to Jehovah our God.’ And I, even I, well know that the king of Egypt will not give YOU permission to go except by a strong hand. And I shall have to stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonderful acts that I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will send YOU out. And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians; and it will certainly occur that when YOU go, YOU will not go empty-handed. And each woman must ask from her neighbor and from the woman residing as an alien in her house articles of silver and articles of gold and mantles, and YOU must put them upon YOUR sons and YOUR daughters; and YOU must strip the Egyptians.”

However, Moses in answering said: “But suppose they do not believe me and do not listen to my voice, because they are going to say, ‘Jehovah did not appear to you.’” Then Jehovah said to him: “What is that in your hand?” to which he said: “A rod.” Next he said: “Throw it on the earth.” So he threw it on the earth, and it became a serpent; and Moses began to flee from it. Jehovah now said to Moses: “Thrust your hand out and grab hold of it by the tail.” So he thrust his hand out and grabbed hold of it, and it became a rod in his palm. “In order that,” to quote him, “they may believe that Jehovah the God of their forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Then Jehovah said to him once more: “Stick your hand, please, into the upper fold of your garment.” So he stuck his hand into the upper fold of his garment. When he drew it out, why, here his hand was stricken with leprosy like snow! After that he said: “Return your hand into the upper fold of your garment.” So he returned his hand into the upper fold of his garment. When he drew it out of the upper fold of his garment, why, here it was restored like the rest of his flesh! “And it must occur that,” to quote him, “if they will not believe you and will not listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will certainly believe the voice of the later sign. Still, it must occur that, if they will not believe even these two signs and will not listen to your voice, then you will have to take some water from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry land; and the water that you will take from the Nile River will certainly become, yes, it will indeed become blood on the dry land.”

Moses now said to Jehovah: “Excuse me, Jehovah, but I am not a fluent speaker, neither since yesterday nor since before that nor since your speaking to your servant, for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.” At that Jehovah said to him: “Who appointed a mouth for man or who appoints the speechless or the deaf or the clear-sighted or the blind? Is it not I, Jehovah? So now go, and I myself shall prove to be with your mouth and I will teach you what you ought to say.” But he said: “Excuse me, Jehovah, but send, please, by the hand of the one whom you are going to send.” Then Jehovah’s anger grew hot against Moses and he said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I do know that he can really speak. And, besides, here he is on his way out to meet you. When he does see you, he will certainly rejoice in his heart. And you must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I myself shall prove to be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach YOU men what YOU are to do. And he must speak for you to the people; and it must occur that he will serve as a mouth to you, and you will serve as God to him. And this rod you will take in your hand that you may perform the signs with it.”

Accordingly Moses went and returned to Jeth’ro his father-in-law and said to him: “I want to go, please, and return to my brothers who are in Egypt that I may see whether they are still alive.” So Jeth’ro said to Moses: “Go in peace.” After that Jehovah said to Moses in Mid’i·an: “Go, return to Egypt, because all the men who were hunting for your soul are dead.”

Then Moses took his wife and his sons and made them ride on an ass, and he proceeded to return to the land of Egypt. Moreover, Moses took the rod of the [true] God in his hand. And Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “After you have gone and returned to Egypt see that YOU men actually perform all the miracles that I have put in your hand before Phar’aoh. As for me, I shall let his heart become obstinate; and he will not send the people away. And you must say to Phar’aoh, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Israel is my son, my firstborn. And I say to you: Send my son away that he may serve me. But should you refuse to send him away, here I am killing your son, your firstborn.”’”

Now it came about on the road at the lodging place that Jehovah got to meet him and kept looking for a way to put him to death. Finally Zip·po’rah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and caused it to touch his feet and said: “It is because you are a bridegroom of blood to me.” Consequently he let go of him. At that time she said: “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

Then Jehovah said to Aaron: “Go to meet Moses into the wilderness.” With that he went and met him in the mountain of the [true] God and kissed him. And Moses proceeded to tell Aaron all the words of Jehovah, who had sent him, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. After that Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the older men of the sons of Israel. Then Aaron spoke all the words that Jehovah had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs under the eyes of the people. At this the people believed. When they heard that Jehovah had turned his attention to the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed down and prostrated themselves.

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and proceeded to say to Phar’aoh: “This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said, ‘Send my people away that they may celebrate a festival to me in the wilderness.’” But Phar’aoh said: “Who is Jehovah, so that I should obey his voice to send Israel away? I do not know Jehovah at all and, what is more, I am not going to send Israel away.” However, they went on to say: “The God of the Hebrews has come in touch with us. We want to go, please, a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to Jehovah our God; otherwise he may strike at us with pestilence or with sword.” At this the king of Egypt said to them: “Why is it, Moses and Aaron, that YOU cause the people to leave off from their works? Go bearing YOUR burdens!” And Phar’aoh continued: “Look! The people of the land are now many, and YOU indeed make them desist from their bearing of burdens.”

Immediately on that day Phar’aoh commanded those who drove the people to work and their officers, saying: “YOU must not gather straw to give to the people to make bricks as formerly. Let them themselves go and gather straw for themselves. Moreover, the required amount of bricks that they were making formerly, YOU will further impose upon them. YOU must not make any reduction for them, because they are relaxing. That is why they are crying out, saying, ‘We want to go, we want to sacrifice to our God!’ Let the service be heavy upon the men and let them work at it, and let them not pay attention to false words.”

So those who drove the people to work and their officers went out and said to the people: “Here is what Phar’aoh has said, ‘I am giving YOU no more straw. YOU yourselves go, get straw for yourselves wherever YOU may find it, because there is to be no reducing of YOUR services one bit.’” Consequently the people scattered about over all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. And those who drove them to work kept urging them, saying: “Finish YOUR works, each one his work, day for day, just as when straw was available.” Later on the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Phar’aoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, these saying: “Why is it YOU did not finish YOUR prescribed task in making bricks as formerly, both yesterday and today?”

Consequently the officers of the sons of Israel went in and began to cry out to Phar’aoh, saying: “Why do you deal this way with your servants? There is no straw given to your servants and yet they are saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ and here your servants are beaten, whereas your own people are at fault.” But he said: “YOU are relaxing, YOU are relaxing! That is why YOU are saying, ‘We want to go, we want to sacrifice to Jehovah.’ And now go, serve! Though no straw will be given to YOU, yet YOU are to give the fixed amount of bricks.” Then the officers of the sons of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight at the saying: “YOU must not deduct from YOUR bricks one bit of anyone’s daily rate.” After that they encountered Moses and Aaron, who were standing there to meet them as they came out from Pharʹaoh. At once they said to them: “May Jehovah look upon YOU and judge, since YOU have made us smell offensive before Phar’aoh and before his servants so as to put a sword in their hand to kill us.” Then Moses turned to Jehovah and said: “Jehovah, why have you caused evil to this people? Why is it that you have sent me? For from the time that I went in before Phar’aoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have by no means delivered your people.”

So Jehovah said to Moses: “Now you will see what I shall do to Phar’aoh, because on account of a strong hand he will send them away and on account of a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

And God went on to speak to Moses and to say to him: “I am Jehovah. And I used to appear to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty, but as respects my name Jehovah I did not make myself known to them. And I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Ca’naan, the land of their alien residences in which they resided as aliens. And I, even I, have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I remember my covenant.

“Therefore say to the sons of Israel, ‘I am Jehovah, and I shall certainly bring YOU out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver YOU from their slavery, and I shall indeed reclaim YOU with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. And I shall certainly take YOU to me as a people, and I shall indeed prove to be God to YOU; and YOU will certainly know that I am Jehovah YOUR God who is bringing YOU out from under the burdens of Egypt. And I shall certainly bring YOU into the land that I raised my hand in oath to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and I shall indeed give it to YOU as something to possess. I am Jehovah.’”

Afterward Moses spoke to this effect to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses out of discouragement and for the hard slavery.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying: “Go in, speak to Phar’aoh, Egypt’s king, that he should send the sons of Israel away out of his land.” However, Moses spoke before Jehovah, saying: “Look! The sons of Israel have not listened to me; and how will Phar’aoh ever listen to me, as I am uncircumcised in lips?” But Jehovah continued to speak to Moses and Aaron and to issue the command by them to the sons of Israel and to Phar’aoh, Egypt’s king, in order to bring the sons of Israel out from the land of Egypt.

These are the heads of the house of their fathers: The sons of Reu’ben, Israel’s firstborn, were Ha’noch and Pal’lu, Hez’ron and Car’mi. These are the families of Reu’ben.

And the sons of Sim’e·on were Jem·u’el and Ja’min and O’had and Ja’chin and Zo’har and Sha’ul the son of a Ca’naan·ite woman. These are the families of Sim’e·on.

And these are the names of the sons of Le’vi, according to their family descents: Ger’shon and Ko’hath and Me·rar’i. And the years of Le’vi’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

The sons of Ger’shon were Lib’ni and Shim’e·i, according to their families.

And the sons of Ko’hath were Am’ram and Iz’har and He’bron and Uz’zi·el. And the years of Ko’hath’s life were a hundred and thirty-three years.

And the sons of Me·rar’i were Mah’li and Mu’shi. These were the families of the Levites, according to their family descents.

Now Am’ram took Joch’e·bed his father’s sister as his wife. Later she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Am’ram’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

And the sons of Iz’har were Ko’rah’and Ne’pheg and Zich’ri.

And the sons of Uz’zi·el were Mish’a·el and El·za’phan and Sith’ri.

Now Aaron took E·li’she·ba, Am·min’a·dab’s daughter, the sister of Nah’shon, as his wife. Later she bore him Na’dab and A·bi’hu, El·e·a’zar and Ith’a·mar.

And the sons of Ko’rah were As’sir and El·ka’nah and A·bi’a·saph. These were the families of the Ko’rah·ites.

And El·e·a’zar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Pu’ti·el as his wife. Later she bore him Phin’e·has. These are the heads of the fathers of the Levites, according to their families.

This is the Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said: “BRING the sons of Israel out from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”

They were the ones speaking to Phar’aoh, Egypt’s king, to bring the sons of Israel out from Egypt. This is the Moses and Aaron.

And it came about on the day that Jehovah spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, that Jehovah went on to speak to Moses, saying: “I am Jehovah. Speak to Phar’aoh king of Egypt everything I am speaking to you.”

Then Moses said before Jehovah: “Look! I am uncircumcised in lips, so how will Phar’aoh ever listen to me?”

Exodus 1-6, NWT

Surging Waters: I Shall Have To Stretch Out My Hand And Strike Egypt With All My Wonderful Acts

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Line Upon Line Lesson 062: The Passover

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 not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

The final plague of Egypt was the death of the firstborn.  The angel of death would pass over houses that had the blood of the lamb painted on the lintel and doorposts.  Houses that did not have the blood of a lamb would suffer the plague.

Why did God command the children of Israel to keep the Passover as an ordinance “forever”?  Wasn’t the plague just a one-time event?

Let’s read together Exodus 12:26-27 and  Jeremiah 34:13.

God wanted them to remember how He had delivered them from Egypt.  They were not to forget that they were once slaves.  There was also one more important reason for the children of Israel to observe the Passover continually.

Let’s read together Exodus 11:48-49; Matthew 28:26-30; John 1:29; and 1 Corinthians 11:25-26.

The Passover pointed the children of Israel forward to a coming Messiah.  Jesus is that Messiah.  Jesus shed His blood to save everyone - both Jew and Gentile.  Any Egyptians who feared the Lord and sheltered in a house with lamb’s blood would have been spared.  In the same way, anyone who accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior can claim His blood and be saved.

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Preview: God’s Spring Appointed Holidays 5783/2023

The first three spring holidays were fulfilled on the appointed holiday by Jesus Himself. The names of the feasts are: Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits.

There are seven God appointed holidays communicated through the Old Testament Law. The first three spring holidays were fulfilled on the appointed holiday by Jesus Himself. The names of the feasts are: Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits. In the Hebrew year 5783 or the Gregorian calendar year of 2023, the holidays occur as follows. Passover essentially begins at sunset on Wednesday,…