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Today's Readings
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Thursday, 23rd May 2024 --- 15 Bashans 1740
Exodus 12 : 1 - 14
Chapter 12
| 1 | Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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| 2 | "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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| 3 | Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: "On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
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| 4 | And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.
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| 5 | Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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| 6 | Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
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| 7 | And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
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| 8 | Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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| 9 | Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire--its head with its legs and its entrails.
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| 10 | You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
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| 11 | And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.
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| 12 | "For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
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| 13 | Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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| 14 | "So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
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Leviticus 23 : 5 - 12
Chapter 23
| 5 | On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passover.
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| 6 | And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
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| 7 | On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.
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| 8 | But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it."'
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| 9 | And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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| 10 | "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
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| 11 | He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
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| 12 | And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD.
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Acknowledgement
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