Bible Cross References
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Exodus 12:6-36
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Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.
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The people are to take some of the blood and put it on the doorposts and above the doors of the houses in which the animals are to be eaten.
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That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast.
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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled, but eat it roasted whole, including the head, the legs, and the internal organs.
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You must not leave any of it until morning; if any is left over, it must be burned.
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You are to eat it quickly, for you are to be dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. It is the Passover Festival to honor me, the LORD.
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"On that night I will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal, and punishing all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
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The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians.
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You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the LORD, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."
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The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.
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On the first day and again on the seventh day you are to meet for worship. No work is to be done on those days, but you may prepare food.
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Keep this festival, because it was on this day that I brought your tribes out of Egypt. For all time to come you must celebrate this day as a festival.
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From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
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For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people."
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Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them, "Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it, so that your families can celebrate Passover.
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Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing the animal's blood, and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the beam above the door of your house. Not one of you is to leave the house until morning.
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When the LORD goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.
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You and your children must obey these rules forever.
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When you enter the land that the LORD has promised to give you, you must perform this ritual.
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When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean?'
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you will answer, 'It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the LORD, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.' " The Israelites knelt down and worshiped.
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Then they went and did what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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At midnight the LORD killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.
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That night, the king, his officials, and all the other Egyptians were awakened. There was loud crying throughout Egypt, because there was not one home in which there was not a dead son.
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That same night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and said, "Get out, you and your Israelites! Leave my country; go and worship the LORD, as you asked.
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Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."
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The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."
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So the people filled their baking pans with unleavened dough, wrapped them in clothing, and carried them on their shoulders.
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The Israelites had done as Moses had said, and had asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes.
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The LORD made the Egyptians respect the people and give them what they asked for. In this way the Israelites carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.
Joshua 5:10
While the Israelites were camping at Gilgal on the plain near Jericho, they observed Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.
2 Chronicles 30:1-35
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The people had not been able to celebrate the Passover Festival at the proper time in the first month, because not enough priests were ritually clean and not many people had assembled in Jerusalem. So King Hezekiah, his officials, and the people of Jerusalem agreed to celebrate it in the second month, and the king sent word to all the people of Israel and Judah. He took special care to send letters to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, inviting them to come to the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover in honor of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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The king and the people were pleased with their plan,
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so they invited all the Israelites, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, to come together in Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover according to the Law, in larger numbers than ever before.
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Messengers went out at the command of the king and his officials through all Judah and Israel with the following invitation: "People of Israel, you have survived the Assyrian conquest of the land. Now return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he will return to you.
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Do not be like your ancestors and your Israelite relatives who were unfaithful to the LORD their God. As you can see, he punished them severely.
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Do not be stubborn as they were, but obey the LORD. Come to the Temple in Jerusalem, which the LORD your God has made holy forever, and worship him so that he will no longer be angry with you.
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If you return to the LORD, then those who have taken your relatives away as prisoners will take pity on them and let them come back home. The LORD your God is kind and merciful, and if you return to him, he will accept you."
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The messengers went to every city in the territory of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far north as the tribe of Zebulun, but people laughed at them and made fun of them.
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Still, there were some from the tribes of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun who were willing to come to Jerusalem.
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God was also at work in Judah and united the people in their determination to obey his will by following the commands of the king and his officials.
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A great number of people gathered in Jerusalem in the second month to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
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They took all the altars that had been used in Jerusalem for offering sacrifices and burning incense and threw them into Kidron Valley.
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And on the fourteenth day of the month they killed the lambs for the Passover sacrifice. The priests and Levites who were not ritually clean became so ashamed that they dedicated themselves to the LORD, and now they could sacrifice burnt offerings in the Temple.
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They took their places in the Temple according to the instructions in the Law of Moses, the man of God. The Levites gave the blood of the sacrifices to the priests, who sprinkled it on the altar.
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Because many of the people were not ritually clean, they could not kill the Passover lambs, so the Levites did it for them and dedicated the lambs to the LORD.
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In addition, many of those who had come from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not performed the ritual of purification, and so they were observing Passover improperly. King Hezekiah offered this prayer for them:
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"O LORD, the God of our ancestors, in your goodness forgive those who are worshiping you with all their heart, even though they are not ritually clean."
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The LORD answered Hezekiah's prayer; he forgave the people and did not harm them.
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For seven days the people who had gathered in Jerusalem celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread with great joy, and day after day the Levites and the priests praised the LORD with all their strength.
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Hezekiah praised the Levites for their skill in conducting the worship of the LORD. After the seven days during which they offered sacrifices in praise of the LORD, the God of their ancestors,
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they all decided to celebrate for another seven days. So they celebrated with joy.
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King Hezekiah contributed 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for the people to kill and eat, and the officials gave them another 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. A large number of priests went through the ritual of purification.
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So everyone was happy---the people of Judah, the priests, the Levites, the people who had come from the north, and the foreigners who had settled permanently in Israel and Judah.
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The city of Jerusalem was filled with joy, because nothing like this had happened since the days of King Solomon, the son of David.
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The priests and the Levites asked the LORD's blessing on the people. In his home in heaven God heard their prayers and accepted them.