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| 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, |
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| 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. |
The passover – Represented the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus on behalf of the Church only. R4384:3
At his appointed season – In the spring, the beginning of the religious year. R4127:3, R4384:3
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| 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. |
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| 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. |
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| 5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
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| 6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: |
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| 7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? |
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| 8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. |
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| 9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
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| 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. |
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| 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. |
The fourteenth day – The full of the moon, symbol of the Law covenant and the people under that covenant. Christ's crucifixion at the full of the moon and its immediately beginning to wane foreshadowed Israel's national decline. F481
As the moon waned for as long as it had increased, so Christ's death was the turning point between the two equal periods of Israel's history. R2270:6
Of the second month – Typifying the Millennial age. R2270:6
If any miss the real communion of the Memorial because of spiritual defilement, let them purge their hearts and celebrate four weeks later. R3013:6
Thus appropriate to celebrate Memorial one month late if date missed through ignorance. R1961:5
At even – Margin: (Between the two evenings). The Jews had two evenings: one from noon to three o'clock; and the other from three o'clock until sunset. Christ's sacrifice was completed at three o'clock, midway between these. R2953:2*
Between six o'clock one evening and six o'clock the next evening. R2917:6
They shall keep it – Typifying that those prevented by ignorance from accepting Messiah as their Redeemer when offered to them will have an opportunity of doing so in the Times of Restitution when their nation, represented by the moon, shall again be full of blessings--in the latter harvest. R2270:6, R1289:6, R5191:3
Unleavened bread – Symbolizing the precious promises that come to us from the Heavenly Father through Christ. R2918:3
Symbolically, without the corruption of human theory, selfishness and ambition. F464
And bitter herbs – Symbols of trials, persecutions, etc. F460
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| 12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. |
Nor break any bone – A type of the fact that none of Jesus' bones were broken. (John 19:36) R198:2*
Of the passover – "Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." (1 Cor. 5:7) F460
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| 13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. |
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| 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. |
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| 15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. |
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| 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. |
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| 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. |
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| 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. |
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| 19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. |
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| 20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. |
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| 21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. |
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| 22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. |
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| 23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. |
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