Passover

How Nave’s arranged it

• Institution ofExodus 12:3–49Exodus 23:15–18Exodus 34:18Leviticus 23:4–8Numbers 9:2–5Numbers 9:13Numbers 9:14Numbers 28:16–25Deuteronomy 16:1–8Deuteronomy 16:16Psalms 81:3Psalms 81:5
• Design ofExodus 12:21–28
• Special Passover, for those who were unclean, or on a journey, to be held in the second monthNumbers 9:6–122 Chronicles 30:2–4
• The lamb killed by Levites, for those who were ceremonially unclean2 Chronicles 30:172 Chronicles 35:3–11Ezra 6:20
• Strangers authorized to celebrateExodus 12:48Exodus 12:49Numbers 9:14
• Observed at the place designated by GodDeuteronomy 16:5–7
• Observed with unleavened bread (no yeast)Exodus 12:8Exodus 12:15–20Exodus 13:3Exodus 13:6Exodus 23:15Leviticus 23:6Numbers 9:11Numbers 28:17Deuteronomy 16:3Deuteronomy 16:4Mark 14:12Luke 22:7Acts 12:31 Corinthians 5:8
• Penalty for neglecting to observeNumbers 9:13
• Re-instituted by EzekielEzekiel 45:21–24
• Observation of, renewed
• By the Israelites upon entering CanaanJoshua 5:10Joshua 5:11
• By Hezekiah2 Chronicles 30:1

The passages, in Bible order (60)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 12:3–49

   Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 12:3–492 voices

   "The lamb," the Lord says, "must be without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats." In another place of Holy Writ, it is prescribed that if anyone is unable to keep the Passover in the first month, he is to do so in the second. According to the regulation above, anyone who is unable to sacrifice a lamb may substitute a kid.

   “Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,....

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2. Exodus 12:8

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

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   “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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3. Exodus 12:15–20

   For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 12:15–202 voices

   “A figurative allusion to this is made (1Co 5:7). The exclusion of leaven for seven days would not be attended with inconvenience in the East, where the usual leaven is dough kept till it becomes sour, and it is kept from one day to another for the purpose of preserving leaven in readiness.

   “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread,....

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4. Exodus 12:21–28

   Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 12:21–282 voices

   “Draw out - i. e. draw the lamb from the fold and then take it to the house. The passover - The word is here applied to the lamb; an important fact, marking the lamb as the sign and pledge of the exemption of the Israelites.

   “Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel,....

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5. Exodus 12:48

   If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 12:481 voice

   “And when a stranger - will keep the passover, etc. - Let all who sojourn among you, and who desire to partake of this sacred ordinance, not only be circumcised themselves, but all the males of their families likewise, that they may all have an equal right to the blessings of the covenant.

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6. Exodus 12:49

   The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

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   “One law shall be to him that is homeborn,....

   “One law shall be to him that is home-born, etc. - As this is the first place that the term תורה torah or Law occurs, a term of the greatest importance in Divine revelation, and on the proper understanding of which much depends, I judge it best to give its genuine explanation once for all.

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7. Exodus 13:3

   So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

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   “And Moses said unto the people,....

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8. Exodus 13:6

   For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 13:62 voices

   “It was, however, only a prospective observance; we read of only one celebration of the passover during the protracted sojourn in the wilderness [Nu 9:5]; but on their settlement in the promised land, the season was hallowed as a sacred anniversary [Jos 5:10], in conformity with the directions here given.

   “Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread,....

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9. Exodus 23:15–18

   You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 23:15–182 voices

   “Three times . . . keep a feast . . . in the year--This was the institution of the great religious festivals--"The feast of unleavened bread," or the passover--"the feast of harvest," or pentecost--"the feast of ingathering," or the feast of tabernacles, which was a memorial of the dwelling in booths in the wilderness, and which was observed in the seventh month (Ex 12:2).

   “Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread,....

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10. Exodus 34:18

    You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

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    “Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

    “The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep,.... Which was instituted at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and on that account, and then observed, Exo 12:15 and afterwards repeated, and the month expressed in which they were to keep it, and the reason of it, as it here follows; see Gill on Exo 13:15.

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11. Leviticus 23:4–8

    These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

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    “Divine wisdom was manifested in fixing them at those periods; in winter, when the days were short and the roads broken up, a long journey was impracticable; while in summer the harvest and vintage gave busy employment in the fields. Besides, another reason for the choice of those seasons probably was to counteract the influence of Egyptian associations and habits.

    “These are the feasts of the Lord - Or rather, the solemnities: (for the day of atonement was a fast:) and so the word is used, Isaiah xxxiii, 20, where Zion is called the city of our solemnities.

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12. Leviticus 23:6

    On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 23:61 voice

    “And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord,.... Which was the day the children of Israel went out of Egypt with their dough and leaven, having not time to leaven it; in remembrance of which this feast was appointed: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread; see Exo 12:15.

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13. Numbers 9:2–5

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

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    “Let the children of Israel also keep the passover,.... Though this ordinance was enjoined the people of Israel, and observed by them at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and had been since repeated, Lev 23:5; yet without a fresh precept, or an explanation of the former, they seemed not to be obliged, or might not be sensible that they were obliged to keep it, until they came into the land of Canaan, Exo 12:25; and therefore a new order is given them to observe it: at his appointed season; and what that season is is next declared.

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14. Numbers 9:6–12

    But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day

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    “Certain men - Probably Mishael and Elizaphan, who buried their cousins, Nadab and Abihu, within a week of this Passover Lev 10:4-5.

    “And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man,....

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15. 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

    “The later Jews speak of this as the “little Passover.” Coming, as it did, a month after the proper Passover, it afforded ample time for a man to purify himself from legal defilement, as also to return from any but a very distant journey. Compare Hezekiah’s act 2Ch 30:1-3.

    “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 …

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16. Numbers 9:13

    But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

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    “But the man that is clean,....

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