The Passover Lamb And Its Sprinkled Blood. Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [above the door] of the houses in which they eat it. [Mat_26:28; Joh_1:29; Heb_9:14] Exo 12:7
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Nation Israel Delivered and Organized
ISRAEL IN EGYPT, Exodus 1:8-12:36
23. What feast did the Israelites celebrate before their departure? Why and how?
THE PASSOVER
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This month shall be the beginning of months to you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
Tell all the congregation of Israel, ‘On the tenth [day] of this month they are to take a lamb or young goat for themselves, according to [the size of] the household of which he is the father, a lamb or young goat for each household.
Now if the household is too small for a lamb [to be consumed], let him and his next door neighbor take one according to the number of people [in the households]; according to what each man can eat, you are to divide the lamb.
Your lamb or young goat shall be [perfect] without blemish or bodily defect, a male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. [1Pe_1:19-20]
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it at twilight.
Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [above the door] of the houses in which they eat it. [Mat_26:28; Joh_1:29; Heb_9:14]
They shall eat the meat that same night, roasted in fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted in fire–both its head and its legs, along with its inner parts.
You shall let none of the meat remain until the morning, and anything that remains left over until morning, you shall burn completely in the fire.
Now you are to eat it in this manner: [be prepared for a journey] with your loins girded [that is, with the outer garment tucked into the band], your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; you shall eat it quickly–it is the LORD’S Passover.
For I [the LORD] will pass through the land of Egypt on this night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal; against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments [exhibiting their worthlessness]. I am the LORD.
The blood shall be a sign for you on [the doorposts of] the houses where you live; when I see the blood I shall pass over you, and no affliction shall happen to you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. [1Co_5:7; Heb_11:28]
‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as an ordinance forever.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Exodus 12:1-14
THE PASSOVER LAMB AND ITS SPRINKLED BLOOD
Henceforth, for Israel, there was to be a new beginning of the year. We should date our birthdays not from the cradle, but from the Cross. The Paschal Lamb was an evident foreshadowing of Christ. See 1Co_5:7.
(1). He was without blemish. Searched by friend and foe, no fault was found in Him.
(2). He was in His prime, when He laid down His life.
(3). Set apart at the opening of His ministry, it took three years to consummate His purpose.
(4). His blood-that phrase being equivalent to His sacrificial death-speaks of the satisfaction of the just claims of inviolable law, where His flesh is “meat indeed.”
(5). Roasting with fire, unleavened bread and bitter herbs denote the intensity of His sufferings, and the chastened spirit with which we draw nigh.
And does not the pilgrim’s attitude bespeak the attitude of the Church, which, at any moment, may be summoned to go forth at the trumpet sounding? 1Co_15:52.
Comments by
WILLIAM MACDONALD
Believers Bible Commentary
On
Exodus 12:1-20
IV. MOSES’ CONFRONTATIONS WITH PHARAOH (5:1–7:13)
VI. THE PASSOVER AND THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN (11:1–12:30)
12:1-10 The LORD gave detailed instructions to Moses and Aaron on how to prepare for the primary Passover. The lamb, of course, is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ (1Co_5:7). It was to be without blemish, speaking of the sinlessness of Christ; a male of the first year, perhaps suggesting our Lord’s being cut off in the prime of life; kept until the fourteenth day of the . . . month, pointing forward to the Savior’s thirty years of private life in Nazareth, during which He was tested by God, then publicly for three years by the full scrutiny of man; killed by the congregation of Israel, as Christ was taken by wicked hands and slain (Act_2:23); killed at twilight, between the ninth and eleventh hours, as Jesus was killed at the ninth hour (Mat_27:45-50). Its blood was to be applied to the door, bringing salvation from the destroyer (v. 7), just as the blood of Christ, appropriated by faith, brings salvation from sin, self, and Satan. The flesh was to be roasted with fire, picturing Christ enduring God’s wrath against our sins. It was to be eaten with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs, symbolizing Christ as the food of His people. We should live lives of sincerity and truth, without the leaven of malice and wickedness, and with true repentance, always remembering the bitterness of Christ’s suffering. Not a bone of the lamb was to be broken (v. 46), a stipulation that was literally fulfilled in the case of our Lord (Joh_19:36).
12:11-20 The first Passover was to be observed by a people ready to travel, a reminder to us that pilgrims on a long journey should travel light. The Passover was so named because the Lord passed over the houses where the blood was applied. The expression “passover” does not mean “pass by.” Cole explains:
Whether it was correct etymology or a pun, pesah to Israel meant “a passing-over” or “a leaping over” and was applied to God’s act in history on this occasion, in sparing Israel.
The Passover was on the fourteenth day of Israel’s religious calendar year (v. 2). Closely connected with the Passover was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. On that first Passover night, the people left Egypt in such a hurry that there was no time for the dough to become leavened (vv. 34, 39). Thereafter, in keeping the Feast for seven days, they would be reminded of the speed of their exodus. But since leaven speaks of sin, they would also be reminded that those who have been redeemed by blood should leave sin and the world (Egypt) behind them. Whoever ate leavened bread would be cut off—that is, excluded from the camp and its privileges. In some contexts, the expression “cut off” means condemned to death.
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