Exodus 12:15-30 Click here for Bible Verses
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Today’s passage is Exodus 12:15-30. Let’s go!
Exodus 12:15-30 (NIV)
15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat–that is all you may do.
17 “Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born.
20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.'” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
28 The Israelites did just what the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
On verses 15-30: At THRIVE Church online yesterday, I shared a message called “Too Much To Pass Over: Understanding the Passover” where we looked at this passage together. If you missed the message or just want to see my painting skills, click HERE.
Wanna check how well you listened to the message this past Sunday as well as your understanding of this passage? Try to answer the following questions:
– Pastor JB shared two reasons why God require that the Israelites eat bread without yeast. What were those two reasons?
– What was yeast supposed to symbolize in this case? Does that mean that yeast is in fact bad and that we should avoid eating yeast all the time?
– In what way is Jesus our unleavened bread?
– In what way is Jesus our Passover lamb?
– Why did God tell the Israelites to observe the Passover not just on the week that they actually left Egypt but on every anniversary of that event as well?
Take a moment to thank Jesus for being our unleavened bread and our Passover lamb. Also pray for people in your life who don’t know the hope we have in Jesus, that God would use you to effectively, sensitively, wisely and lovingly lead them to Jesus.
