Thursday, August 12, 2010

'This is the Ordinance of the Passover'

Let's search Exodus 12:37-50.

The day which marked the children of Israel's four hundred thirty years in Egypt was the same day the children left the land (Exodus 12:41). Six hundred thousand men plus children traveled from Rameses to Succoth on foot along with 'a mixed multitude' and "...flocks, and herds, even very much cattle" (Exodus 12:37,38).

"And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual" (Exodus 12:39).

"It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations" (Exodus 12:42).

The following words of the Lord are word for word from verses 43-49 in the King James version of the bible:

"And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."

"Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they" (Exodus 12:50).

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