PASSOVER

Passages on this topic · 178

• Exodus 12:3

  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

• Exodus 12:4

  and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

• Exodus 12:5

  Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

• Exodus 12:6

  and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

• Exodus 12:7

  They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

• Exodus 12:8

  They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

• Exodus 12:9

  Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

• Exodus 12:10

  You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

• Exodus 12:11

  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.

• Exodus 12:12

  For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

• Exodus 12:13

  The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 12:14

  This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

• Exodus 12:15

  “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

• Exodus 12:16

  In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

• Exodus 12:17

  You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

• Exodus 12:18

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

• Exodus 12:19

  There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

• Exodus 12:20

  You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

• Exodus 12:21

  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

• Exodus 12:22

  You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

• Exodus 12:23

  For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

• Exodus 12:24

  You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

• Exodus 12:25

  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.

• Exodus 12:26

  It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

• Exodus 12:27

  that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

• Exodus 12:28

  The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

• Exodus 12:29

  At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

• Exodus 12:30

  Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

• Exodus 12:31

  He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

• Exodus 12:32

  Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

• Exodus 12:33

  The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

• Exodus 12:34

  The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

• Exodus 12:35

  The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

• Exodus 12:36

  Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.

• Exodus 12:37

  The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

• Exodus 12:38

  A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

• Exodus 12:39

  They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.

• Exodus 12:40

  Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

• Exodus 12:41

  At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 12:42

  It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

• Exodus 12:43

  Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

• Exodus 12:44

  but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

• Exodus 12:45

  A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

• Exodus 12:46

  It must be eaten In one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.

• Exodus 12:47

  All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

• Exodus 12:48

  When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

• Exodus 12:49

  One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”

• Exodus 13:3

  Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

• Exodus 13:6

  Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.

• Exodus 23:15

  You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

• Exodus 23:16

  And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

• Exodus 23:17

  Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

• Exodus 23:18

  “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.

• Exodus 34:18

  “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.

• Leviticus 23:4

  “‘These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.

• Leviticus 23:5

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.

• Leviticus 23:6

  On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

• Leviticus 23:7

  In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

• Leviticus 23:8

  But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.’”

• Numbers 9:2

  “Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.

• Numbers 9:3

  On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season — according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.”

• Numbers 9:4

  Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.

• Numbers 9:5

  They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

• Numbers 9:6

  There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

• Numbers 9:7

  Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”

• Numbers 9:8

  Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”

• Numbers 9:9

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 9:10

  “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

• Numbers 9:11

  In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

• Numbers 9:12

  They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

• Numbers 9:13

  But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

• Numbers 9:14

  “‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”

• Numbers 28:16

  “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.

• Numbers 28:17

  On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.

• Numbers 28:18

  In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;

• Numbers 28:19

  but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without defect;

• Numbers 28:20

  and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.

• Numbers 28:21

  You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

• Numbers 28:22

  and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

• Numbers 28:23

  You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

• Numbers 28:24

  In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.

• Numbers 28:25

  On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

• Deuteronomy 16:1

  Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

• Deuteronomy 16:2

  You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 16:3

  You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

• Deuteronomy 16:4

  No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

• Deuteronomy 16:5

  You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;

• Deuteronomy 16:6

  but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 16:7

  You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.

• Deuteronomy 16:8

  Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.

• Deuteronomy 16:16

  Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

• Joshua 5:10

  The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

• Joshua 5:11

  They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.

• 2 Kings 23:22

  Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

• 2 Kings 23:23

  but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:1

  Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 30:2

  For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

• 2 Chronicles 30:3

  For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 30:4

  The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

• 2 Chronicles 30:17

  For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

• 2 Chronicles 35:1

  Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• 2 Chronicles 35:3

  He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 35:4

  Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

• 2 Chronicles 35:5

  Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 35:6

  Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”

• 2 Chronicles 35:7

  Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.

• 2 Chronicles 35:8

  His princes gave for a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:9

  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.

• 2 Chronicles 35:10

  So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.

• 2 Chronicles 35:11

  They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

• 2 Chronicles 35:18

  There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Ezra 6:19

  The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• Ezra 6:20

  Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.

• Psalms 81:3

  Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

• Psalms 81:5

  He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

• Ezekiel 45:21

  In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

• Ezekiel 45:22

  On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

• Ezekiel 45:23

  The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

• Ezekiel 45:24

  He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

• Matthew 26:2

  “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

• Matthew 26:17

  Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

• Matthew 26:18

  He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”

• Matthew 26:19

  The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

• Matthew 26:20

  Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.

• Matthew 26:26

  As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

• Matthew 26:27

  He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it,

• Matthew 26:28

  for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

• Matthew 27:15

  Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

• Mark 14:1

  It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

• Mark 14:2

  For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.”

• Mark 14:12

  On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”

• Mark 14:13

  He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

• Mark 14:14

  and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

• Mark 14:15

  He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there.”

• Mark 14:16

  His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

• Mark 14:17

  When it was evening he came with the twelve.

• Mark 14:18

  As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me — he who eats with me.”

• Mark 14:19

  They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”

• Mark 14:20

  He answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.

• Mark 14:21

  For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

• Mark 14:22

  As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”

• Mark 14:23

  He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.

• Mark 14:24

  He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

• Mark 14:25

  Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”

• Mark 15:6

  Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

• Luke 2:41

  His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

• Luke 2:42

  When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,

• Luke 2:43

  and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it,

• Luke 2:44

  but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

• Luke 2:45

  When they didn’t find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.

• Luke 2:46

  After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

• Luke 2:47

  All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

• Luke 2:48

  When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”

• Luke 2:49

  He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

• Luke 2:50

  They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

• Luke 22:7

  The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

• Luke 22:8

  He sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”

• Luke 22:9

  They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare?”

• Luke 22:10

  He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.

• Luke 22:11

  Tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

• Luke 22:12

  He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there.”

• Luke 22:13

  They went, found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

• Luke 22:14

  When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.

• Luke 22:15

  He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

• Luke 22:16

  for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 22:17

  He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves,

• Luke 22:18

  for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”

• Luke 22:19

  He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

• Luke 22:20

  Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• Luke 23:16

  I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

• Luke 23:17

  Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.

• John 2:13

  The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

• John 2:23

  Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

• John 18:28

  They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

• John 18:39

  But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

• Acts 12:3

  When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

• 1 Corinthians 5:7

  Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

• 1 Corinthians 5:8

  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.