The Passover Lamb

12 Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ^[a]Egypt, ² “^(A)This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. ³ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a ^[b]lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a ^[c]lamb for ^[d]each household. ⁴ Now if the household is too small for a ^[e]lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ^[f]number of persons in them; according to ^[g]what each man should eat, you are to ^[h]divide the lamb. ⁵ Your ^[i]lamb shall be ^(B)an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ^6 [j]You shall keep it until the ^(C)fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it ^[k](D)at twilight. ^7 (E)Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ^[l]of the houses in which they eat it. ⁸ They shall eat the flesh ^(F)that same night, ^(G)roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^(H)unleavened bread ^[m](I)and bitter herbs. ⁹ Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather ^(J)roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with ^(K)its entrails. ^10 (L)And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. ¹¹ Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is ^(M)the Lord’s Passover. ¹² For ^(N)I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^(O)against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^(P)I am the Lord. ^13 (Q)The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you ^[n]live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you ^[o]to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴ ‘Now ^(R)this day will be ^(S)a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^[p](T)a permanent ordinance. ^15 (U)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall ^[q]remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, ^(V)that ^[r]person shall be cut off from Israel. ^16 (W)On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten ^[s]by every person, that alone may be ^[t]prepared by you. ¹⁷ You shall also observe ^(X)the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this ^(Y)very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as ^(Z)a ^[u]permanent ordinance. ^18 (AA)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 (AB)Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that ^[v](AC)person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. ²⁰ You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

²¹ Then ^(AD)Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “^[w]Go and ^(AE)take for yourselves ^[x]lambs according to your families, and slay ^(AF)the Passover lamb. ^22 (AG)You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ^[y]apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

A Memorial of Redemption

²³ For ^(AH)the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will ^(AI)not allow the ^(AJ)destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you. ²⁴ And ^(AK)you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. ²⁵ When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has ^[z]promised, you shall observe this ^[aa]rite. ^26 (AL)And when your children say to you, ‘^[ab]What does this rite mean to you?’ ²⁷ you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to ^(AM)the Lord ^[ac]who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but ^[ad]spared our homes.’” ^(AN)And the people bowed low and worshiped.

Death Plot and Anointing

14 ^(A)Now ^(B)the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes ^(C)were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

³ When he saw that it ^(A)pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Now ^[a]it was during ^(B)the days of Unleavened Bread.