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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 12:1 Context: Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001a.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/exodus/12-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc/exodus/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//biblehub.com/crossref/">Cross Refs</a> > Exodus 12:1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/11-10.htm" title="Exodus 11:10">◄</a> Exodus 12:1 <a href="../exodus/12-2.htm" title="Exodus 12:2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Context</div><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Passover Lamb</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>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 <i>in them;</i> according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Moreover, 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>They shall eat the flesh that <i>same</i> night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, <i>both</i> its head and its legs along with its entrails. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Now you shall eat it in this manner: <i>with</i> your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in hasteit is the L<font size="1">ORDS</font> Passover. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>For I 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 against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgmentsI am the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>The 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 <i>you</i> when I strike the land of Egypt. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Feast of Unleavened Bread</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it <i>as</i> a feast to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it <i>as</i> a permanent ordinance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Seven 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, that person shall be cut off from Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and <i>another</i> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>You shall also observe the <i>Feast of</i> Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>In the first <i>month,</i> on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether <i>he is</i> an alien or a native of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover <i>lamb.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>You 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. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>A Memorial of Redemption</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite <i>you.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>When you enter the land which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>And when your children say to you, What does this rite mean to you? <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>you shall say, It is a Passover sacrifice to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes. And the people bowed low and worshiped. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel went and did <i>so;</i> just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Now it came about at midnight that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> struck 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 cattle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, as you have said. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Exodus of Israel</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, We will all be dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>So the people took their dough before it was leavened, <i>with</i> their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> went out from the land of Egypt. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Ordinance of the Passover</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>It is a night to be observed for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, to be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it; <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>but every mans slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>All the congregation of Israel are to celebrate this. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>Then all the sons of Israel did <i>so;</i> they did just as the L<font size="1">ORD</font> had commanded Moses and Aaron. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/12-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>And on that same day the L<font size="1">ORD</font> brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/exodus/12.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/exodus/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/exodus/12.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/exodus/12.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/exodus/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/exodus/12.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/exodus/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_passover_an_expiation_and.htm">The Passover: an Expiation and a Feast, a Memorial and a Prophecy</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2. This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4. And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_k/the_passover_an_expiation_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_exodus.htm">The Exodus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The land of Egypt is a picture of the house of bondage into which all God's covenant people will, sooner or later, be brought on account of their sin. All those whom God means to give an inheritance in Canaan, he will first take down into Egypt. Even Jesus Christ himself went into Egypt before he appeared publicly as a teacher before the world, that in his instance, as well as in that of every Christian, the prophecy might be fulfilled--"Out of Egypt have I called my Son." Every one who enjoys the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_exodus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_38_1892/a_question_for_communicants.htm">A Question for Communicants</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"What mean ye by this service?"--Exodus 12:26. IN A SPIRITUAL religion, everything must be understood. That which is not spiritual, but ritualistic, contents itself with the outward form. Under the Jewish dispensation, there was a very strong tendency in that direction; but it was kept to some extent in check. Under the Christian faith, this tendency must not be tolerated at all. We must know the meaning of what we do; otherwise we are not profited. We do not believe in the faith of the man who was <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_38_1892/a_question_for_communicants.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 38: 1892</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/the_blood.htm">The Blood</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Now, at the time of which this Book of Exodus speaks, Egypt was exposed to a terrible peril. Jehovah himself was about to march through the streets of all the cities of Egypt. It was not merely a destroying angel, but Jehovah himself; for thus it is written, "I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast." No one less than I AM, the great God, had vowed to "cut Rahab" with the sword of vengeance. Tremble, ye inhabitants <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_5_1859/the_blood.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 5: 1859</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the_gospel_of_the_pentateuch/sermon_xii_the_birthnight_of.htm">The Birthnight of Freedom</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Easter Day.) Exodus xii. 42. This is a night to be much observed unto the Lord, for bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt. To be much observed unto the Lord by the children of Israel. And by us, too, my friends; and by all nations who call themselves FREE. There are many and good ways of looking at Easter Day. Let us look at it in this way for once. It is the day on which God himself set men FREE. Consider the story. These Israelites, the children of Abraham, the brave, wild patriarch <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the_gospel_of_the_pentateuch/sermon_xii_the_birthnight_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">The Gospel of the Pentateuch</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/of_the_practice_of_piety_2.htm">Of the Practice of Piety in Holy Feasting. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Holy feasting is a solemn thanksgiving, appointed by authority, to be rendered to God on some special day, for some extraordinary blessings or deliverances received. Such among the Jews was the feast of the Passover (Exod. xii. 15), to remember to praise God for their deliverance out of Egypt's bondage; or the feast of Purim (Esth. ix. 19, 21), to give thanks for their deliverance from Haman's conspiracy. Such amongst us is the fifth of November, to praise God for the deliverance of the king and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/of_the_practice_of_piety_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/i_of_preparation.htm">Of Preparation. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">That a Christian ought necessarily to prepare himself before he presume to be a partaker of the holy communion, may evidently appear by five reasons:-- First, Because it is God's commandment; for if he commanded, under the pain of death, that none uncircumcised should eat the paschal lamb (Exod. xii. 48), nor any circumcised under four days preparation, how much greater preparation does he require of him that comes to receive the sacrament of his body and blood? which, as it succeeds, so doth it <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/i_of_preparation.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_5/chapter_iithe_reaction_against_egypt.htm">The Reaction against Egypt</a><br></span><span class="snippet">THE XIth DYNASTY: HARMHABI--THE HITTITE EMPIRE IN SYRIA AND IN ASIA MINOR--SETI I. AND RAMSES II.--THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA: MINEPHTAH AND THE ISRAELITE EXODUS. The birth and antecedents of Harmhabi, his youth, his enthronement--The final triumph of Amon and his priests--Harmhabi infuses order into the government: his wars against the Ethiopians and Asiatics--The Khati, their civilization, religion; their political and military constitution; the extension of their empire towards the north--The countries <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_5/chapter_iithe_reaction_against_egypt.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 5</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_divine_inspiration_of_the_bible/chapter_six_the_typical_significance.htm">The Typical Significance of the Scriptures Declare their Divine Authorship</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"In the volume of the Book it is written of Me" (Heb. 10:7). Christ is the Key to the Scriptures. Said He, "Search the Scriptures..they are they which testify of Me." (John 5:39), and the "Scriptures" to which He had reference, were not the four Gospels for they were not then written, but the writings of Moses and the prophets. The Old Testament Scriptures then are something more than a compilation of historical records, something more than a system of social and religious legislation, something <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the_divine_inspiration_of_the_bible/chapter_six_the_typical_significance.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arthur W. Pink—</span><span class="citation2">The Divine Inspiration of the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cxvii_preparation_for_passover_disciples.htm">Preparation for Passover. Disciples Contend for Precedence. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Bethany to Jerusalem. Thursday Afternoon and, After Sunset, Beginning of Friday.) ^A Matt. XXVI. 17-20; ^B Mark XIV. 12-17; ^C Luke XXII. 7-18, 24-30. ^c 7 And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed. [See p. 57. Leaven was to the Jew a symbol of corruption and impurity, because it causes bread to become stale. The feast of unleavened bread began properly on the fifteenth of Nisan, and lasted seven days, but this was the fourteenth Nisan, the day on which the paschal <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/cxvii_preparation_for_passover_disciples.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. McGarvey—</span><span class="citation2">The Four-Fold Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chadwick/the_gospel_of_st_mark/chapter_14_22-25_bread_and_wine.htm">Bread and Wine</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And as they were eating, He took bread, and when He had blessed, He brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take ye: this is My body. And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave to them: and they all drank of it. And He said unto them, This is My blood of the covenant, which is shed for many. Verily I say unto you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." MARK 14:22-25 (R.V.) HOW much does the Gospel of St. Mark tell us <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chadwick/the_gospel_of_st_mark/chapter_14_22-25_bread_and_wine.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. A. 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