43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it. 44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him. 45A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
46It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
47The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it. 48If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it. 49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
50Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
Passover lamb, “and you may not break any of the bones.”
This was looking forward to, in preparation for the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. John 1:29 (Jesus Christ)
Psalms 22:17 I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
Jhn 19:33 - But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
If a foreigner wanted to participate in the Passover they had to become part of the people of Israel by receiving the covenant of circumcision.
Have you ever watched the movie The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston?
Particularly the scene when the Destroyer comes and the Israelites were in there homes eating the Passover.
It is a dramatization of the biblical account but it gives you an idea of what it may have been like.
The Lord didn’t want the Israelites to forget, He wanted generations to come to keep this day in remembrance. The day He killed Egypt’s firstborn because the pharaoh wouldn’t let His firstborn people go!
For Christians, Jesus became our Passover Lamb.
Is He yours?
Blessings, David
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