Hezekiah Keeps the Passover

30 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

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Therefore [a]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed (A)Christ, our (B)Passover, was sacrificed [b]for us. Therefore (C)let us keep the feast, (D)not with old leaven, nor (E)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 5:7 clean out
  2. 1 Corinthians 5:7 NU omits for us

“How(A) can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like (B)Admah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim?
My heart [a]churns within Me;
My sympathy is stirred.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:8 Lit. turns over

“Ephraim (A)has mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.
(B)Aliens have devoured his strength,
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.

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“They[a] do not direct their deeds
Toward turning to their God,
For (A)the spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
And they do not know the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:4 Or Their deeds will not allow them to turn

So slaughter the Passover offerings, (A)consecrate yourselves, and prepare them for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.”

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10 So the runners passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun; but (A)they laughed at them and mocked them. 11 Nevertheless (B)some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

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But a (A)man of God came to him, saying, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel—not with any of the children of Ephraim.

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16 (A)And [a]after the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel, (B)came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:16 Lit. after them

Priests and Levites Move to Judah(A)

13 And from all their territories the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him.

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Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and (A)the herd, in the (B)place where the Lord chooses to put His name. You shall eat no leavened bread with it; (C)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may (D)remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. (E)And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until (F)morning.

“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover (G)at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the (A)tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be (B)without[a] blemish, a male [b]of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the (C)fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that (D)night; (E)roasted in fire, with (F)unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but (G)roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. 10 (H)You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. 11 And thus you shall eat it: [c]with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. (I)It is the Lord’s Passover.

12 ‘For I (J)will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and (K)against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: (L)I am the Lord. 13 Now the 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 ‘So this day shall be to you (M)a memorial; and you shall keep it as a (N)feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast (O)by an everlasting ordinance. 15 (P)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, (Q)that [d]person shall be [e]cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day there shall be (R)a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you. 17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for (S)on this same day I will have brought your [f]armies (T)out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance. 18 (U)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For (V)seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:5 perfect or sound
  2. Exodus 12:5 a year old
  3. Exodus 12:11 Made ready to travel
  4. Exodus 12:15 soul
  5. Exodus 12:15 Put to death
  6. Exodus 12:17 hosts

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