Bible Cross References
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Exodus 12:2-14
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"This month is to be the first month of the year for you.
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Give these instructions to the whole community of Israel: On the tenth day of this month each man must choose either a lamb or a young goat for his household.
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If his family is too small to eat a whole animal, he and his next-door neighbor may share an animal, in proportion to the number of people and the amount that each person can eat.
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You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.
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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."
Exodus 12:18-14
Exodus 13:3-10
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Moses said to the people, "Remember this day---the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. This is the day the LORD brought you out by his great power. No leavened bread is to be eaten.
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You are leaving Egypt on this day in the first month, the month of Abib.
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The LORD solemnly promised your ancestors to give you the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. When he brings you into that rich and fertile land, you must celebrate this festival in the first month of every year.
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For seven days you must eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to honor the LORD.
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For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.
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When the festival begins, explain to your sons that you do all this because of what the LORD did for you when you left Egypt.
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This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on your hand or on your forehead; it will remind you to continue to recite and study the Law of the LORD, because the LORD brought you out of Egypt by his great power.
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Celebrate this festival at the appointed time each year.
Exodus 23:15
In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.
Numbers 9:2-7
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"On the fourteenth day of this month, beginning at sunset, the people of Israel are to observe the Passover according to all the rules and regulations for it."
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(SEE 9:2)
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So Moses told the people to observe the Passover,
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and on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month they did so in the Sinai Desert. The people did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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But there were some people who were ritually unclean because they had touched a corpse, and they were not able to keep the Passover on that day. They went to Moses and Aaron
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and said, "We are unclean because we have touched a corpse, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD's offering with the rest of the Israelites?"
Numbers 28:16
The Passover Festival in honor of the LORD is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
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"Honor the LORD your God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.
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Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the LORD your God.
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When you eat this meal, do not eat bread prepared with yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, as you did when you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread---it will be called the bread of suffering---so that as long as you live you will remember the day you came out of Egypt, that place of suffering.
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For seven days no one in your land is to have any yeast in the house; and the meat of the animal killed on the evening of the first day must be eaten that same night.
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"Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship---and nowhere else in the land that the LORD your God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.
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(SEE 16:5)
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Boil the meat and eat it at the one place of worship; and the next morning return home.
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For the next six days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, and on the seventh day assemble to worship the LORD your God, and do no work on that day.
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 35:18
Since the days of the prophet Samuel, the Passover had never been celebrated like this. None of the former kings had ever celebrated a Passover like this one celebrated by King Josiah, the priests, the Levites, and the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem
2 Chronicles 35:19
in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Matthew 26:17
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Where do you want us to get the Passover meal ready for you?"
Mark 14:12
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the day the lambs for the Passover meal were killed, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and get the Passover meal ready for you?"
Luke 22:7
The day came during the Festival of Unleavened Bread when the lambs for the Passover meal were to be killed.
1 Corinthians 5:7
You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth.