This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
- KJV And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.
- NKJV 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.
- NASB Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is the Lord’s Passover.
- NLT “These are your instructions for eating this meal: Be fully dressed, wear your sandals, and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the Lord’s Passover.
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Quick answer
Israel is to eat the Passover dressed and ready to travel, in haste, for it is the LORD's Passover.
Overview
The posture of the meal, belted, shod, and staff in hand, embodies readiness for immediate deliverance. The phrase 'it is Yahweh's Passover' names this ordinance for the first time, rooted in God 'passing over' the blood-marked homes. Believers likewise are called to live as redeemed pilgrims, ready to follow the God who saves and leads them out of bondage.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 12:27you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
- Eph 6:15and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Cor 5:7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Luke 12:35Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- Exod 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- Matt 26:19–20So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.
- Lev 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Num 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Exod 12:21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
- Deut 16:2–6You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
- Luke 15:22But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
- Exod 12:13The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
- Luke 7:38As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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