Compare: Pesac ·Passover· is described as beginning on 10th day of Nissan. The Rabbis view Nissan as the first of the “Religious Calendar” because as the Rabbis determined, and therefore Judaism observes, the seventh month as the first month of the “Civil Calendar”. In Hebrew the seventh month’s name is Ethanim ·Ever flowing streams·, in Babylonian it is called Tishrei ·Beginning· / (See more notes in Lev 23:10 OU297) “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel [God prevails], saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; 4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 † Ex 12:6 (Ex 12:1-14) (#4.263): T. To slaughter the Pesac ·Passover· lamb / R. To slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel [God prevails] shall kill it at evening. 7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. 8 ‡ Ex 12:8 (Ex 12:6-10) (#4.264): T. To eat the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb on the evening of the fourteenth day in the first month of Nissan / R. To eat the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb with matzah ·unleavened bread· and marror ·bitter herbs· on the evening of the fifteenth day in the first month of Nissan They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and matzah ·unleavened bread·. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 9 § Ex 12:9 (Ex 12:8-10) (#4.265): Not to eat the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· sacrifice raw or boiled / Directive: The Pesac ·Passover· is to be roasted in fire Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. 10 * Ex 12:10 (Ex 12:8-10) (#4.266): Not to leave the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb overnight until morning / Directive: Whatever remains overnight is to be burnt with fire You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Adonai ’s Pesac ·Passover·. 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery] in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], both man and animal. Against all the deities of Egypt [Abode of slavery] I will execute judgments: I am Adonai . 13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. 14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Adonai : throughout all your generations you shall keep it a feast by this regulation forever.
Note: The specific dates for this festival are: Nissan 14th is Pesac ·Passover· and then Nissan 15th - 21st is the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread·. Many people refer to these eight days as Pesac ·Passover·, making no distinction at all In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat matzah ·unleavened bread·, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. 19 § Ex 12:19 (Ex 12:15-20, 13:7) (#4.269): T. Hametz ·Leaven· shall not be found in your homes during the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to find hametz ·leaven· in your domain seven days There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel [God prevails], whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. 20 * Ex 12:20 (Ex 12:18-20, 13:7) (#4.270): T. Not to eat nothing leavened during the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to eat a mixture containing leaven on Pesac ·Passover· You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat matzah ·unleavened bread·.’ ”
Example: Specificity an Israelite who has associated himself with Gentiles and worshiped idolatry like them shall not eat the Pesac ·Passover· lamb Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer], “This is the regulation of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb. No foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. 45 * Ex 12:45 (Ex 12:44-45) (#4.272): Not to feed the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb to a resident traveler, sojourner, or a hired servant A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. 46 † Ex 12:46 (#4.273): Not to remove any of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb from the single house the lamb meal was eaten in It must be eaten In one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. ‡ Ex 12:46 (#4.274): Not to break any bones of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb § MP: None of Messiah’s bones would be broken parallel to the Pesac ·Passover· lamb. (See also Ps 22:17, 22:14, 34:19-20). (John 19:32-33, 19:36; 1 Cor 10:3-4) Do not break any of its bones. * Quoted in John 19:36 47 All the congregation of Israel [God prevails] shall keep it. 48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Pesac ·Passover· to Adonai , let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: † Ex 12:48 with implied Lev 22:10 (Ex 12:43-49; Lev 22:10-16) (#2b.91): T. That the uncircumcised will not eat the Pesac ·Passover· meal / R. That the uncircumcised shall not eat the holy offerings to Adonai or other consecrated food / R. An uncircumcised Cohen ·Priest· must not eat the offerings but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49 One Torah ·Teaching· shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.” 50 All the children of Israel [God prevails] did so. As Adonai enjoined Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer], so they did. 51 That same day, Adonai brought the children of Israel [God prevails] out of the land ‡ Quoted in Acts 13:17 of Egypt [Abode of slavery] by their armies.
*12:2 Ex 12:2 (#4.262): T. To sanctify the first new month of Nissan Their flight and to count Nissan as the first month of the civil calendar / R. The court is to calculate and determine when a new month begins Compare: Pesac ·Passover· is described as beginning on 10th day of Nissan. The Rabbis view Nissan as the first of the “Religious Calendar” because as the Rabbis determined, and therefore Judaism observes, the seventh month as the first month of the “Civil Calendar”. In Hebrew the seventh month’s name is Ethanim ·Ever flowing streams·, in Babylonian it is called Tishrei ·Beginning· / (See more notes in Lev 23:10 OU297)
†12:6 Ex 12:6 (Ex 12:1-14) (#4.263): T. To slaughter the Pesac ·Passover· lamb / R. To slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time
‡12:8 Ex 12:8 (Ex 12:6-10) (#4.264): T. To eat the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb on the evening of the fourteenth day in the first month of Nissan / R. To eat the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb with matzah ·unleavened bread· and marror ·bitter herbs· on the evening of the fifteenth day in the first month of Nissan
§12:9 Ex 12:9 (Ex 12:8-10) (#4.265): Not to eat the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· sacrifice raw or boiled / Directive: The Pesac ·Passover· is to be roasted in fire
*12:10 Ex 12:10 (Ex 12:8-10) (#4.266): Not to leave the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb overnight until morning / Directive: Whatever remains overnight is to be burnt with fire
†12:15 Ex 12:15 (Ex 12:15-20, 13:7) (#4.267): T. To remove the hametz ·leaven· from your home during the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. To destroy all hametz ·leaven· on 14th day of the first month Nissan, the first day of Pesac ·Passover· / Consider: Leaven is a symbol of sin, excess, and pride; the connotations thereof are negative, neutral, and positive or negative
‡12:18 Ex 12:18 (Ex 12:15-20, 13:7) (#4.268): T. To eat matzah ·unleavened bread· from the 14th day to the 21th day of the first month Nissan / R. To eat matzah ·unleavened bread· on the first night of Pesac ·Passover· Note: The specific dates for this festival are: Nissan 14th is Pesac ·Passover· and then Nissan 15th - 21st is the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread·. Many people refer to these eight days as Pesac ·Passover·, making no distinction at all
§12:19 Ex 12:19 (Ex 12:15-20, 13:7) (#4.269): T. Hametz ·Leaven· shall not be found in your homes during the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to find hametz ·leaven· in your domain seven days
*12:20 Ex 12:20 (Ex 12:18-20, 13:7) (#4.270): T. Not to eat nothing leavened during the seven days of the Feast of Matzah ·Unleavened Bread· / R. Not to eat a mixture containing leaven on Pesac ·Passover·
†12:23 Quoted in Heb 11:28
‡12:40 Quoted in Gal 3:17
§12:43 Ex 12:43 (Ex 12:43-49) (#4.271): T. No foreigner is to eat the Pesac ·Passover· lamb / R. No apostate Israelite is to eat the Pesac ·Passover· lamb Example: Specificity an Israelite who has associated himself with Gentiles and worshiped idolatry like them shall not eat the Pesac ·Passover· lamb
*12:45 Ex 12:45 (Ex 12:44-45) (#4.272): Not to feed the flesh of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb to a resident traveler, sojourner, or a hired servant
†12:46 Ex 12:46 (#4.273): Not to remove any of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb from the single house the lamb meal was eaten in
‡12:46 Ex 12:46 (#4.274): Not to break any bones of the Pesac ·Passover· lamb
§12:46 MP: None of Messiah’s bones would be broken parallel to the Pesac ·Passover· lamb. (See also Ps 22:17, 22:14, 34:19-20). (John 19:32-33, 19:36; 1 Cor 10:3-4)
*12:46 Quoted in John 19:36
†12:48 Ex 12:48 with implied Lev 22:10 (Ex 12:43-49; Lev 22:10-16) (#2b.91): T. That the uncircumcised will not eat the Pesac ·Passover· meal / R. That the uncircumcised shall not eat the holy offerings to Adonai or other consecrated food / R. An uncircumcised Cohen ·Priest· must not eat the offerings
‡12:51 Quoted in Acts 13:17