Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Comment: The lambs are killed; the blood painted on the door posts;The people are told not to go outside; The protection from death promised; the annual re-enactment ordered: and the people bowed their heads and worshipped. The whole land waits to see what the night will bring!
Prayer: Help me to be ever mindful that Jesus, the LAMB of God died for my freedom!
As I read it! 
Thank you Barry for your comments on this passage. I believe that God had planned this “Passover” even before He created the world. It is such a special illustration of what Jesus would do when He died for the sin of the whole world. The covering of the blood of the lamb would bring salvation to the Israelite people on the night when the Angel of death would “passover” them. Praise God that even now the blood of the Lamb of God can wash away my sin. God bless you.
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