“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
Called Nisan, containing part of March, and part of April. As touching the observation of feasts: as for other policies, they reckoned from September.
“Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: lamb: or, kid”
As the fathers of the household had great or small families.
“And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.”
He shall take so many as are sufficient to eat the lamb.
“And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. in: Heb. between the two evenings”
Everyone his house. Hebrew, between the two evenings, or twilight.
“Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
That is, all that may be eaten.
“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.”
The lamb was not the Passover, but signified it, as sacraments are not the thing itself, which they do represent, but signify it.
“And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.”
That is, until Christ’s coming: for then ceremonies had an end. Of the benefit received for your deliverance.
“And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. man: Heb. soul”
Or, calling together of the people to serve God.
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.”
Cross references: : Lev. 23:5 ; Num. 28:16 For in old time so they counted, beginning the day at Sunset till the next day at the same time.
“And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.”
Or, two side posts. Heb. 21:28 Or, transom, or upper door post.
“For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.”
The Angel sent of God to kill the firstborn.
“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.”
The land of Canaan. Or, ceremony.
“That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.”
They gave God thanks for so great a benefit.
“And 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.”
Of those houses, wherein any firstborn was, either of men or beasts.
“And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.”
Num. 32:3 ; Josh. 24:6 Which was a city in Goshen, Gen. 47:11 .
“And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. a mixed: Heb. a great mixture”
Which were strangers, and not born of the Israelites.
“Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.”
Gen. 15:13 ; Acts 7:6 ; Gal. 3:17
“And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.”
From Abraham’s departing from Ur in Chaldea unto the departing of the children of Israel from Egypt are 430 years.
“And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:”
Except he be circumcised, and only profess your religion.
“One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.”
They that are of the household of God, must be all joined in one faith and religion.