21 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of this month, shall be your paschal festival. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
Ezekiel 45:21 Cross References - Thomson
Exodus 12:1-51
1 Now the Lord had spoken to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,
2 This month shall he to you the beginning of months. It is the first for you among the months of the year.
3 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel and say, On the tenth of this month let them take every one a sheep according to the houses of patriarchal families, every one a sheep for a family;
4 and if there be too few in the family to be sufficient for one sheep, let him associate with him his next neighbour. With regard to the number of souls, every one shall collect to him a number sufficient for a sheep.
5 Your sheep shall be without blemish, a male and in its first year. You may take either from the lambs or the kids.
6 And it shall be kept up by you until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel of the door of the house in which they are to eat it.
8 And that night they shall eat the flesh roasted with fire. They shall also eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs.
9 You shall not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted with fire, head and feet and carcase together.
10 Nothing of it shall be left till the morning. And you shall not break a bone of it. And what is left of it till the morning you shall burn with fire.
11 And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord.
12 For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord.
13 But the blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses in which you are. And when I see the blood, I will protect you and there shall be no destroying plague among you, when I smite in the land of Egypt.
14 And that day shall be to you for a memorial. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout all your generations. As an everlasting ordinance you shall celebrate it.
15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. And from the first day you shall remove all leaven out of your houses. Whoever shall eat leaven from the first to the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from among Israel.
16 And with regard to the first day, it shall be proclaimed holy; and the seventh day shall be holy to you. In them you shall not do any kind of sacrificial service, save that which must be done for every soul. This alone shall be done for you
17 and you shall keep this commandment. For on that day I will lead out your host from the land of Egypt; therefore you shall make the observance of that day an everlasting rite to your generations.
18 Beginning at evening with the fourteenth day of the first month, you shall eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty first day.
19 For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. Whoever shall eat leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation of Israel; whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
20 You shall eat nothing that is leavened. But in all your habitations you must eat unleavened bread.
21 Moses therefore convened the whole senate of the children of Israel and said to them, Go take for yourselves the sheep according to your families and kill the passover;
22 and ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and having dipped it in the blood by the door you shall smear the lintel and the two side posts with some of the blood which is at the door; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians; and when he shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to smite.
24 And this ordinance you shall keep as a rite established for thee and thy children for ever.
25 And when you come to the land which the Lord will give you as he hath spoken, you must keep up this religious service.
26 And if your children say to you, What is the meaning of this religious service?
27 then you shall say to them, It is the sacrifice of the Passover of the Lord; because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Upon which the people bowed down and worshipped;
28 and the Israelites went and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle.
30 Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his attendants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there was not one dead.
31 And Pharao called for Moses and Aaron by night and said to them, Arise and depart from among my people, both you and the Israelites. Go and serve the Lord your God as you say.
32 Take your flocks and your herds and go away, and bless me, I beseech you.
33 And the Egyptians pressed the people with great earnestness to hurry them away out of the country; for they said, We shall all die.
34 So the people took up, upon their shoulders, their dough which had not yet been leavened: the masses of mixed up meal, bound up in their mantles
35 now the Israelites had done as Moses commanded them; they had asked of the Egyptian gold and silver vessels and raiment,
36 and the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and they had supplied them, so they spoiled the Egyptians
37 and the Israelites to the number of six hundred thousand men on foot besides women and children began their march from Ramesses to Succoth.
38 And there went up with them a mixed multitude with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance.
39 And of the dough which they brought out of Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened: for the Egyptians hurried them away and they could not wait, and they had not dressed any provisions for themselves for the journey.
40 Now the sojourning of the Israelites which they and their fathers had sojourned in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years all the host of the Lord came out of the land of Egypt.
42 At night there was a watch for the Lord. This watch of the Lord was instituted that very night to bring them out of the land of Egypt. That it might be kept by all the children of Israel throughout their generations,
43 the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover; No stranger shall eat of it;
44 but every servant born at home or bought with money thou shalt circumcise and then he may eat of it.
45 A sojourner or a hireling shall not eat of it.
46 In one family it shall be eaten, and you must not carry any of the flesh abroad out of the house; nor shall you break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of the children of Israel shall keep this festival.
48 And if any proselyte come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise all his males and then he may come and keep it, and he shall be as a native of the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49 There shall be one law for the home born and for the proselyte who shall come among you.
50 Now the children of Israel had done as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron; and when they had done so,
51 on that very day the Lord led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt with their host.
Leviticus 23:5-8
5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover for the Lord.
6 And on the fifteenth day of this month beginneth the festival of unleavened bread for the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7 Now the first day shall be a holy, set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service,
8 but offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service.
Numbers 9:2-14
2 Give orders, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
3 On the fourteenth day of this first month, towards evening, thou shalt celebrate it in its season. According to its rites, and according to its institution, thou shalt celebrate it.
4 Accordingly Moses spoke to the children of Israel to keep the passover
5 on the fourteenth day of the first month, in the wilderness of Sina. And when the children of Israel were doing as the Lord commanded Moses,
6 there were some men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, and could not keep the passover; so these men came to Moses and Aaron on that day,
7 and said to them, We are defiled by the dead body of a man, must we therefore be deprived of the opportunity of offering our gift to the Lord, in its appointed season, among the children of Israel:
8 whereupon Moses said to them, Stand here; and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.
9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say, If any man among you, or among your posterity, happen to be defiled by the dead, or be on a far distant journey, he shall keep the passover to the Lord
11 in the second month. On the fourteenth day they shall keep it towards evening. They shall eat it with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs;
12 they shall not leave any of it till the morning; nor shall they break a bone of it. They shall keep it according to the ritual of the passover.
13 And if any man be clean, and not on a distant journey, and fail to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from among his people; because he did not offer this gift to the Lord, in its appointed time, such a man shall bear his sin.
14 And if there come to you a proselyte in your land, and he chuse to keep the passover to the Lord, he must keep it according to its ritual, and according to its institution. You shall have one law for the proselyte and for him born in the land.
Numbers 28:16-25
16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the passover to the Lord,
17 and on the fifteenth day of the month shall commence the festival thereof. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
18 Now, this first day shall be solemnly set apart for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service;
19 but you shall bring for whole burnt offerings; for an offering of homage to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. You must see that they are without blemish.
20 And their sacrifice shall be fine flour, mixed up with oil, three tenths for each bull, and two tent! is for the ram,
21 and thou shalt prepare a tenth for every one of the seven lambs;
22 and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
23 over and above the whole burnt offering which is to be made every morning, and which is a continual whole burnt offering.
24 After this manner you shall make daily offerings, during the seven days, as a gift; an offering of homage, for a smell of fragrance, to the Lord: Over and above the continual whole burnt offering, thou shalt offer it with its libation.
25 And the seventh of these days shall be solemnly set apart for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work.
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
1 Observe the month of New things, and keep the passover to the Lord thy God, because in the month of New things thou didst come out of the land of Egypt, by night.
2 And at the passover thou shalt sacrifice to the Lord thy God, sheep, and kine, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked.
3 At it thou shalt not eat leaven. Seven days, at it, thou shalt eat unleavened bread; the bread of affliction, because you came in haste out of Egypt, that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt, all the days of your life.
4 No leaven shall be seen in all thy borders for seven days, and none of the flesh of that which you shall sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall be left till the morning.
5 Thou shalt not be at liberty to keep the passover in any of the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee,
6 but only in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse, for his name to be there invoked. Thou shalt kill the passover in the evening, at the setting of the sun, in the season thou didst come out of Egypt.
7 And when thou hast cooked, and roasted, and eaten it, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, in the morning thou mayst return and go home.
8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be the Exod; a festival to the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work, but what is necessary for life.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new mass as you are unleavened. For Christ our Paschal lamb is indeed slain for us,
8 so that we should keep the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and malignity; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.