“When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the LORD’S. Every firstborn of aContinue reading “Exodus 13: 11-16….The customs explained.”
Category Archives: Exodus
Exodus 13: 1-10….Two memorials!
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”3 Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house ofContinue reading “Exodus 13: 1-10….Two memorials!”
Exodus 12: 43-51….Rules for Remembering this day!
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house;Continue reading “Exodus 12: 43-51….Rules for Remembering this day!”
Exodus 12: 34-42….Hurry, Hurry, Hurry.
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. And the LORD had given the people favorContinue reading “Exodus 12: 34-42….Hurry, Hurry, Hurry.”
Exodus 12: 29-33….Get away – be gone!
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants andContinue reading “Exodus 12: 29-33….Get away – be gone!”
Exodus 12: 21-28….They did as they were told!
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 thatContinue reading “Exodus 12: 21-28….They did as they were told!”
Exodus 12: 14-20….Instructions for the future annual memorial!
“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for ifContinue reading “Exodus 12: 14-20….Instructions for the future annual memorial!”
Exodus 12: 1-13….Preparing for the final plague!
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according toContinue reading “Exodus 12: 1-13….Preparing for the final plague!”
Exodus 11: 1-10….A Final Plague Threatened
The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every womanContinue reading “Exodus 11: 1-10….A Final Plague Threatened”
Exodus 10:21-29….Pitch Blackness!
21 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They did not seeContinue reading “Exodus 10:21-29….Pitch Blackness!”
As I read it! 