The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- KJV All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- NKJV All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- NASB All the congregation of Israel are to celebrate this.
- NLT The whole community of Israel must celebrate this Passover festival.
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All the congregation of Israel is to keep the Passover.
Overview
The ordinance is not optional but binds the whole covenant community. Every Israelite household is to participate in remembering the deliverance God wrought. This universal obligation among God's people underscores that redemption is shared by all who belong to Him, and that corporate worship rightly responds to His saving acts.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Exod 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
- Num 9:13But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
- Exod 12:3Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
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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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