Exodus 12:21

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Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them,“Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.

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  • Exod 12:3 : 3 Tell the whole community of Israel,‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families– a lamb for each household.
  • Mark 14:12-16 : 12 The Passover Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples said to him,“Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 13 He sent two of his disciples and told them,“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house,‘The Teacher says,“Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” 16 So the disciples left, went into the city, and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
  • Luke 22:7-9 : 7 The Passover Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying,“Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.” 9 They said to him,“Where do you want us to prepare it?” 10 He said to them,“Listen, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters, 11 and tell the owner of the house,‘The Teacher says to you,“Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ 12 Then he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Make preparations there.” 13 So they went and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
  • 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
  • Exod 3:16 : 16 “Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them,‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, appeared to me– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob– saying,“I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,
  • Exod 12:11 : 11 This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.
  • Exod 17:5 : 5 The LORD said to Moses,“Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.
  • Exod 19:7 : 7 So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,
  • Num 9:2-5 : 2 “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.” 4 So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover. 5 And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the desert of Sinai; in accordance with all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.
  • Num 11:16 : 16 The Response of God The LORD said to Moses,“Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.
  • Josh 5:10 : 10 So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month in the rift valley plains of Jericho.
  • 2 Kgs 23:21 : 21 The king ordered all the people,“Observe the Passover of the LORD your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”
  • 2 Chr 30:15-17 : 15 They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the LORD’s temple. 16 They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 17 Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 35:5-6 : 5 Stand in the sanctuary and, together with the Levites, represent the family divisions of your countrymen. 6 Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to celebrate according to the LORD’s message which came through Moses.”
  • Ezra 6:20 : 20 The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues the priests, and for themselves.
  • Matt 26:17-19 : 17 The Passover Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and said,“Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 18 He said,“Go into the city to a certain man and tell him,‘The Teacher says,“My time is near. I will observe the Passover with my disciples at your house.”’” 19 So the disciples did as Jesus had instructed them, and they prepared the Passover.

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  • Exod 12:1-8
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    81%

    1The Institution of the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

    2“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

    3Tell the whole community of Israel,‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families– a lamb for each household.

    4If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people– you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.

    5Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

    6You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

    7They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

    8They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

  • 2 Chr 35:6
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    6Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to celebrate according to the LORD’s message which came through Moses.”

  • Exod 12:22-23
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    22Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

    23For the LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the LORD will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

  • Num 9:2-5
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    79%

    2“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

    3In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.”

    4So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover.

    5And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the desert of Sinai; in accordance with all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

  • Exod 12:26-29
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    26When your children ask you,‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’–

    27then you will say,‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,

    28and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

    29The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

  • Exod 12:10-14
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    10You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

    11This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.

    12I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD.

    13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.

    14This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the LORD– you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

  • Luke 22:7-8
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    7The Passover Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

    8Jesus sent Peter and John, saying,“Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.”

  • Exod 12:42-43
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    42It was a night of vigil for the LORD to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the LORD for generations to come.

    43Participation in the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

  • Ezek 45:21
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    21“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for the seven days of the festival bread made without yeast will be eaten.

  • Num 9:11-12
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    11They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

    12They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

  • Exod 12:20
    74%

    20You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”

  • Deut 16:1-2
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    1The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.

    2You must sacrifice the Passover animal(from the flock or the herd) to the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

  • Lev 23:5
    74%

    5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the LORD.

  • Luke 22:1
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    1Judas’ Decision to Betray Jesus Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

  • 2 Kgs 23:21
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    21The king ordered all the people,“Observe the Passover of the LORD your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”

  • Num 28:16
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    16Passover and Unleavened Bread“‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

  • Exod 12:47
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    47The whole community of Israel must observe it.

  • Mark 14:12
    73%

    12The Passover Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples said to him,“Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

  • 2 Chr 35:11
    72%

    11They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, while the Levites skinned the animals.

  • Exod 12:18
    72%

    18In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

  • Heb 11:28
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    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

  • Deut 16:5-6
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    5You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you,

    6but you must sacrifice it in the evening in the place where he chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

  • Exod 19:7
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    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,

  • Lev 8:19
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    19and he slaughtered it. Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Num 9:9
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    9The LORD spoke to Moses: