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| 1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, saying, |
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| 2 Let the children of Israel also hold the passover at its set time; |
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 on the fourteenth day in this month between the two evenings, ye shall hold it at its set time; according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof shall ye hold it. |
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| 4 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should hold the passover. |
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| 5 And they held the passover in the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. |
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| 6 And there were men, who were unclean through the dead body of a man, and could not hold 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 to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not present the offering of Jehovah at its set time among the children of Israel? |
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| 8 And Moses said to them, Stay, and I will hear what Jehovah commands concerning you. |
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| 9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your generations be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall hold the passover to Jehovah. |
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| 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the two evenings, shall they hold it; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it. |
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 until the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to every ordinance of the passover shall they hold 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 a man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to hold the passover, that soul shall be cut off from among his peoples; because he presented not the offering of Jehovah at its set time: that man shall bear his sin. |
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| 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and would hold the passover to Jehovah, according to the rite of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do. Ye shall have one rite, both for the stranger and for him that is born in the land. |
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| 15 And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of testimony; and at even it was upon the tabernacle as the appearance of fire, until the morning. |
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| 16 So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire. |
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| 17 And when the cloud rose from the tent, then the children of Israel journeyed; and at the place where the cloud stood still, there the children of Israel encamped. |
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| 18 According to the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed, and according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelt upon the tabernacle they encamped. |
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| 19 And when the cloud was long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not. |
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| 20 And if it were so that the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle, according to the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed. |
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| 21 And if it were so that the cloud was there from the evening until the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed; or a day and a night, and the cloud was taken up, they journeyed; |
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| 22 or two days, or a month, or many days, when the cloud was long upon the tabernacle, dwelling upon it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. |
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| 23 At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed: they kept the charge of Jehovah according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses. |
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