These scriptures may be used as the introduction to a Passover Remembrance Dinner. (See Post 3) This account, used with the scriptures about the Last Supper found in Post , emphasizes the institution of the Sacrament as the new memorial of the Passover.
Exodus 12: 1-42
1 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 neighbor next unto his house take it
according to the number of the souls; every
man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it
out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on
the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head
with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which
remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and
your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s
passover.
12
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
13
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to
the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance
for ever.
15
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away
leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first
day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day
there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in
them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day
have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe
this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat
unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth
that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation
of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened
bread.
21
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out
and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the
basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in
the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the
morning.
23
For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the
blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the
door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
you.
24
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever.
25
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give
you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye
by this service?
27
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover, who passed over
the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and
delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28
And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses
and Aaron, so did they.
29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the
firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of
cattle.
30
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the
Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where
there was not one dead.
31
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you
forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve
the LORD, as ye have said.
32
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless
me also.
33
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of
the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs
being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36
And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very
much cattle.
39
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of
Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could
not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four
hundred and thirty years.
41
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the
selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the
land of Egypt.
42
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the
land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children
of Israel in their generations.
