When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
- KJV And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
- NKJV It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service.
- NASB When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep this rite.
- NLT When you enter the land the Lord has promised to give you, you will continue to observe this ceremony.
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Quick answer
When Israel reaches the promised land, they are to continue keeping the Passover service.
Overview
The ordinance looks beyond the night of the exodus to the future life of the nation in Canaan, the land God swore to give. Worship is to continue in the place of fulfilled promise, binding past redemption to present obedience. The forward look reflects God's faithfulness: the same Lord who delivers also brings His people into their inheritance, a pattern fulfilled fully in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 3:17And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Exod 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Deut 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- Deut 12:8–9You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
- Ps 105:44–45He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- Josh 5:10–12On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
- Deut 16:5–9You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
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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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