The Passover^(A)

¹⁶ “‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord’s Passover^(B) is to be held.

The Passover^(A)

16 Observe the month of Aviv^(B) and celebrate the Passover^(C) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. ² Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.^{(D) 3} Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,^(E) because you left Egypt in haste^(F)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.^{(G) 4} Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening^(H) of the first day remain until morning.^(I)

⁵ You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you ⁶ except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary^[a](J) of your departure from Egypt. ⁷ Roast^(K) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. ⁸ For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly^(L) to the Lord your God and do no work.^(M)

¹⁸ In the first month^(A) you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

⁷ Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.^{(A) 8} Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread^(B) of sincerity and truth.

³ Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month,^(A) in accordance with all its rules and regulations.^(B)”

⁴ So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,^{(C) 5} and they did so in the Desert of Sinai^(D) at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^(E) The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.^(F)

⁵ The Lord’s Passover^(A) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^{(B) 6} On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread^(C) begins; for seven days^(D) you must eat bread made without yeast. ⁷ On the first day hold a sacred assembly^(E) and do no regular work. ⁸ For seven days present a food offering to the Lord.^(F) And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”

² “This month is to be for you the first month,^(A) the first month of your year. ³ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb^[a](B) for his family, one for each household.^{(C) 4} If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. ⁵ The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,^(D) and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,^(E) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.^{(F) 7} Then they are to take some of the blood^(G) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸ That same night^(H) they are to eat the meat roasted^(I) over the fire, along with bitter herbs,^(J) and bread made without yeast.^{(K) 9} Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.^{(L) 10} Do not leave any of it till morning;^(M) if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ¹¹ This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste;^(N) it is the Lord’s Passover.^(O)

³ When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews,^(A) he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.^{(B) 4} After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.^(C)

The Last Supper^{(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)}

⁷ Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.^{(F) 8} Jesus sent Peter and John,^(G) saying, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover.”