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Exodus 12:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you. "

Exodus 12:16

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14 This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.

17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

18 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.

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Exodus 12:1

"The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,"

Exodus 12:2

"“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you."

Exodus 12:3

"Speak to all the congregation of Israel, 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;"

Exodus 12:4

"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. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat."

Exodus 12:5

"Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats."

Exodus 12:6

"You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening."

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