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Through My Bible Yr 03 – June 20

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Through My Bible Yr 03 – June 20

Exodus 12:37 – 13:22

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Through My Bible – June 20

Exodus 12:37 – 13:22 (EHV)

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Exodus 12

³⁷The Israelites set out from Rameses to Sukkoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides their families. ³⁸A mixed group of non-Israelites also went up along with them, as well as a large amount of livestock, both flocks and herds. ³⁹The Israelites baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, for it had not been leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay. They also had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰The amount of time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. ⁴¹At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the very day, all of the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴²It was a night that the Lord kept vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is dedicated to the Lord. All the Israelites are to keep vigil throughout their generations.

Passover Restrictions

⁴³The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the regulation concerning the Passover: No foreigner may eat it. ⁴⁴But any slave whom you have purchased may eat it if you circumcise him. ⁴⁵A temporary resident or a hired servant may not eat it. ⁴⁶It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones. ⁴⁷The whole community of Israel shall do this. ⁴⁸If a resident alien among you wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, every male in his household must be circumcised. Then he may take part in it. He will be treated like a native-born of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it. ⁴⁹The same law will apply to the native-born and to the alien who resides among you.” ⁵⁰So that is what all the Israelites did. They did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁵¹That same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, lined up by their divisions.

Instructions for Remembering the Passover

Exodus 13

¹The Lord spoke to Moses: ²“Set apart all the firstborn for me, the firstborn of every mother^[1] among the Israelites, both people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me.”

³Then Moses said this to the people:

Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, where you were slaves.^[2] For by the strength of his hand the Lord brought you out from there. Nothing with leaven^[3] may be eaten. ⁴Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving. ⁵So when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—the land he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to perform this ceremony during this month: ⁶Seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord. ⁷Unleavened bread must be eaten throughout the seven days. No leavened bread is to be seen among you. No yeast is to be seen among you, anywhere in your entire territory. ⁸On that day you are to explain this to your son, “It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.” ⁹This will serve as a sign for you on your wrist and a reminder on your forehead^[4] so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a mighty hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt. ¹⁰You must keep this regulation at its appointed time from year to year.

¹¹When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites—just as he swore to you and to your fathers—and gives it to you, ¹²then you must dedicate the firstborn of every mother to the Lord. Every firstborn of your livestock, the ones that are males, will belong to the Lord. ¹³Every firstborn donkey you are to redeem with a lamb. But if you do not want to redeem it, then you are to break its neck. However, you must redeem all the firstborn among your sons.

¹⁴In the future, when your son asks you, “What is this about?” you will say to him, “By the strength of his hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, where we were slaves. ¹⁵When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, the firstborn of people and animals. That is why I sacrifice to the Lord the firstborn of every mother, the males, but I redeem every firstborn of my sons.” ¹⁶It will serve as a sign on your wrist and a symbol on your forehead. For by the strength of his hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.

Pillars of Cloud and Fire

¹⁷When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by the way that goes to the land of the Philistines, although it was more direct, for God said, “If the people face war, they may change their minds and return to Egypt.” ¹⁸So God led the people by the way that goes through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.^[5] The Israelites went up from the land of Egypt in battle formation.

¹⁹Moses also took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. Joseph had said, “God will surely come to your aid. Then you must bring up my bones with you from Egypt.” ²⁰They set out from Sukkoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. ²¹The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on their way and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light. In this way they could travel by day and by night. ²²The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people.

Footnotes

Exodus 13:2 Literally the opener of every womb. Jewish tradition, however, focuses more on the firstborn sons of fathers. This verse seems to be a general statement of a principle, for which details are given later. It is not clear how the principle was to be applied to flocks.
Exodus 13:3 Literally the house of slaves
Exodus 13:3 Yeast is the most common kind of leaven, but the terms are not synonymous. Yeast is an organism. Leaven is any agent that causes bread to rise. Leaven in the Bible was frequently a clump of fermented dough that had been reserved.
Exodus 13:9 Since the ceremony could not be literally worn on the wrist or forehead, this seems to mean that the ceremony would be a visual aid in the same way that objects worn on the wrist or forehead would be (Deuteronomy 6:8).
Exodus 13:18 The Hebrew name for the sea, Yam Suf, seems to mean Sea of Reeds and includes the present Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez west of the Sinai Peninsula, and the Gulf of Aqaba east of the Sinai Peninsula.

Source: https://wels.net/bible3/03_06_20_db/

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