Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
Parallel translations
- WEB “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.
- KJV Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
- NKJV “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
- NASB “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left over until morning.
- NLT “You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And none of the meat of the Passover sacrifice may be kept over until the next morning.
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Quick answer
Passover sacrifices must be offered without leaven and not kept until morning.
Overview
These ritual details preserved the purity and immediacy of the Passover offering, with no corrupting leaven and no leftover meat. They reinforced the holiness God required in approaching Him. The Passover lamb, eaten in its appointed time, foreshadows Christ our Passover, offered once for all and never to decay (1 Corinthians 5:7).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Exod 23:18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
- Exod 12:10Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
- Deut 16:3You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- Exod 12:20You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
- Num 9:12they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
- Exod 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Get 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.
- Exod 29:34And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
- Lev 7:15The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.
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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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