Ezekiel 45:21 References

21 "In the afirst month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the bPassover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

b Exodus 12:1-24, Leviticus 23:5-8


Exodus 12

1 Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 "aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a lamb for each household.
4 'Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.
5 'Your lamb shall be aan unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 'You shall keep it until the afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it bat twilight.
7 'aMoreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8 'They shall eat the flesh athat same night, broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with cunleavened bread dand bitter herbs.
9 'Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather aroasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with bits entrails.
10 'aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.
11 'Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste--it is athe Lord'S Passover.
12 'For aI will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments--cI am the Lord.
13 'aThe blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 'Now athis day will be ba memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ca permanent ordinance.
15 'aSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, bthat person shall be cut off from Israel.
16 'aOn the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.
17 'You shall also observe athe Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this bvery day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as ca permanent ordinance.
18 'aIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
19 'aSeven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that bperson shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
20 'You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
21 Then aMoses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and btake for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay cthe Passover lamb.
22 "aYou shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.
23 "For athe Lord will pass through to smite 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 bnot allow the cdestroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.
24 "And ayou shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.

Leviticus 23

5 'aIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord'S Passover.
6 'Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the aFeast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7 'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall anot do any laborious work.
8 'But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.'"

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