HOUSEHOLDS AND THE PASSOVER

Exodus 12:1-28, 40-50 (Larger Passage Exodus 12:1-51)

Hebrew

house - bayith house, family, home

habitation - moshab moshab a site, an abode, dwelling

family - mishpachah a family, circle of relatives

V1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 

V2 This month shall be unto you the beginning months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

V3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, in the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

V4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls, every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

V5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

V6 And ye shall keep it up unto the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

V7 And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

V8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and the leavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

V9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

V10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it unto the morning ye shall burn with fire.

V11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’ Passover.

V12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

V13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

V14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

V15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

V16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

V17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: there shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.

V18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

V19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

V20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

V21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

V22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

V23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

V24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.

V25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

V26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

V27 That he shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.  And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

V28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

V40         Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

V41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

V42 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.

V43 And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

V44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

V45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

V46 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.

V47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

V48 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.