Exodus 12:2-14
2 a“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb baccording to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5Your lamb shall be cwithout blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6and you shall keep it until the dfourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. ▼▼Hebrew between the two evenings
7“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the ftwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with gunleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but hroasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10And iyou shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11In this manner you shall eat it: with jyour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. kIt is the Lord’s Passover. 12For lI will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on mall the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: nI am the Lord. 13 oThe blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. 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“This day shall be pfor you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a qstatute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Exodus 12:43-49
Institution of the Passover
43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44but every slave ▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)
that is sbought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 tNo foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and uyou shall not break any of its bones. 47 vAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 wIf a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he xshall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49There shall be yone law for the native and for the zstranger who sojourns among you.” Numbers 9:3
3 aaOn the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.”2 Chronicles 30:2-15
2For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover abin the second month— 3for they could not keep it acat that time adbecause the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem— 4and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly. 5So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, aefrom Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed. 6 afSo couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, agreturn to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of ahthe kings of Assyria. 7 aiDo not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. 8 ajDo not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, akthat his fierce anger may turn away from you. 9For alif you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children amwill find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For anthe Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, aoif you return to him.”10 apSo the couriers went from city to city through the country of aqEphraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but arthey laughed them to scorn and mocked them. 11However, assome men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. 12The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded atby the word of the Lord.
13And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread auin the second month, a very great assembly. 14They set to work and removed avthe altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away awand threw into the brook Kidron. 15 axAnd they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. ayAnd the priests and the Levites were ashamed, azso that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
John 19:36
36 baFor these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: bb“Not one of his bones bcwill be broken.”
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