Passover will begin this year on April 5 at sundown. It is always good to review the passages that discuss this very important holiday. Passover and the attendant week-long feast of unleavened bread were one of three times Israelites were called to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem each year. Passover and the feast of Unleavened bread are a feast to remember God’s deliverance of Israel out of slavery in Egypt.
Read Exodus 12
1. In Chapter 12, God establishes a new calendar. What instructions does Moses give about what is to be done on the 10th day of the month?
2. What requirements are stated for the lamb?
3. What is to be done at twilight on the 14th day? What is to be done with the blood?
4. What specific instructions are given about the cooking and eating of the meat?
5. Copy Exodus 12:23.
6. What do you learn about the Feast of Unleavened Bread from this chapter?
7. What is Pharaoh’s response to this plague in Exodus 12:29-32? Egyptians?
8. How many Israelites left Egypt? What was their first stop when they left Egypt?
9. What additional information do you learn about the Passover from Exodus 12:42-49?
10. What do you learn from the following verses?
□ 1 Corinthians 5:7
□ 1 Peter 1:19
□ Revelation 5:6
Note: The feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread commemorate God’s deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. In addition to looking back, all of the Jewish feasts, of which Passover and Unleavened Bread are just two, look ahead to Jesus, the Messiah (the Promised and Expected One).
As we move through the books of the Law, we have already seen and will continue to see signs, pictures and foretellings of the coming Messiah, the one who will deliver the people of God, both Jew and Gentile, from the bondage of sin.
Rooted and Grounded 