Bitter Herbs

How Nave’s arranged it

• Eaten symbolically with the Passover mealExodus 12:8Numbers 9:11

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 12:8

   They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 12:82 voices

   “And we must eat the meat roasted with fire with unleavened bread. For the Word of God is not only flesh. He says, indeed, "I am the bread of life," and "This is the bread which comes down from heaven that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

   “And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,.... The night of the fourteenth of Nisan; and as the Jews reckoned their days from the evening preceding, this must be the beginning of the fifteenth day, which being observed, will serve to reconcile some passages relating to this ordinance.

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2. Numbers 9:11

   Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

   ›Commentary on Numbers 9:112 voices

   “Those who also lived farther off or had been unclean in soul were commanded to celebrate the pasch in the second month. This is understood as a type of the holy church, which, since it has been defiled by all demons, was seen to be …

   “The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it,....

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