Describe the Passover as recorded in Exodus 12:1-30.

      

Describe the Passover as recorded in Exodus 12:1-30.

  

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Martin
- God instructed Moses and Aaron to have all the Israelites to choose a lamb or a young goat for sacri?ce. The sacri?cial animals were to be one year old and without blemish

- The sacri?cial animals were to be chosen on the tenth day, but sacri?ced on the 14"‘ day.
- A small family that could not consume the meal was to combine with the neighbour.

- The sacri?cial animal's blood was to be smeared on the two door posts and lintel of each Israelite's house.

- This distinguished the Israelites" house from the Egyptian, so that the angel of death would spare them when he killed the ?rstborn sons of Egyptians.

- The animal for sacri?ce was to be roasted whole and eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

- The Israelites were to dress up before eating in readiness for the journey.

- The Israelite women were to ask for jewelry from Egyptian women to compensate for the free labour they had given in Egypt.
The Israelites were to remain indoors until dawn in order to be protected from the Angel of Death.

- That night, the Angel of destruction passed over the Israelites households, killing all firstborn males of the Egyptians. The execution picked up from pharaoh's own son to that of Egyptian slaves.

-The firstborn male offspring of the Egyptian animal also did not escape that wrath.

marto answered the question on June 14, 2019 at 02:12


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