Bible Cross References
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
Numbers 9:3-5
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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.
Exodus 12:2-11
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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.
Exodus 12:18-11
Exodus 12:43-49
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the Passover regulations: No foreigner shall eat the Passover meal,
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but any slave that you have bought may eat it if you circumcise him first.
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No temporary resident or hired worker may eat it.
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The whole meal must be eaten in the house in which it was prepared; it must not be taken outside. And do not break any of the animal's bones.
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The whole community of Israel must celebrate this festival,
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but no uncircumcised man may eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor the LORD, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.
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The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you."
Leviticus 23:5-8
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The Passover, celebrated to honor the LORD, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
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On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work.
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Offer your food offerings to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.
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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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.
Ezekiel 45:21-24
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"On the fourteenth day of the first month you will begin the celebration of the Passover Festival. For seven days everyone will eat bread made without yeast.
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On the first day of the festival the ruling prince must offer a bull as a sacrifice for his sins and for those of all the people.
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On each of the seven days of the festival he is to sacrifice to the LORD seven bulls and seven rams without any defects and burn them whole. He is also to sacrifice a male goat each day as a sin offering.
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For each bull and each ram that is sacrificed, there is to be an offering of half a bushel of grain and three quarts of olive oil.
Matthew 26:2
"In two days, as you know, it will be the Passover Festival, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."
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?"
Luke 22:7
The day came during the Festival of Unleavened Bread when the lambs for the Passover meal were to be killed.
Luke 22:8
Jesus sent Peter and John with these instructions: "Go and get the Passover meal ready for us to eat."
Acts 12:3
When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he went ahead and had Peter arrested. (This happened during the time of the Festival of Unleavened Bread.)
Acts 12:4
After his arrest Peter was put in jail, where he was handed over to be guarded by four groups of four soldiers each. Herod planned to put him on trial in public after Passover.
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.