Bible Cross References
fourteenth
Numbers 9:3
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 12:43-49
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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."
2 Chronicles 30:2-15
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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.
John 19:36
This was done to make the scripture come true: "Not one of his bones will be broken."
and eat it
Exodus 12:8
That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast.