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Passover instructions

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Often appears with: voyages and seafaring · unleavened bread · slavery and bondage · sacrifice and ritual · lamb blood on doorposts · funeral rites and burial · exodus timeline 430 years · everlasting holy day · custom and unwritten law · custom and the manners of a people · circumcision requirement

Usually: law or decree (1) · narrative (1) · exile and homecoming (1) · reverence (1)

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“For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.” William Tyndale, The first New Testament printed in English · observation

The first New Testament printed in English primary

William Tyndale · 1520s; English translation of the Pentateuch and New Testament material issued in the 1520s (later printed English Bible contents in this edition).
Chapter .j. > Chapter .xij. (1/3)

The LORD institutes Passover for Israel: slaughtering a spotless male lamb, marking doorposts with blood, eating roasted meat with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and observing it as an everlasting holy custom.

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying: This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel saying: that they take the tenth day of this month to every household, a sheep. If the household be too few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbour that is next unto this house, take according to the number of s…

The first New Testament printed in English primary

William Tyndale · 1520s; English translation of the Pentateuch and New Testament material issued in the 1520s (later printed English Bible contents in this edition).
Chapter .j. > Chapter .xij. (3/3)

Israel departs Egypt from Rameses to Sucoth after 430 years, observing Passover with rules excluding strangers and uncircumcised people and forbidding breaking bones or carrying flesh outside.

and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and so they borrowed and robbed the Egyptians. Thus took the children of Israel their journey from Rameses to Sucoth six hundred thousand men of foot, beside children. And much common people went also with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle exceeding much. And they…