Rules of the Passover Supper Exodus 12:43-13:2

Posted by admin on April 5, 2010

In these verses the Lord lays out some of the regulations of the Passover.
Interestingly, a servant that was owned could eat it after he was circumcised
but a hired servant or a foreigner could not, apparently, regardless if he was
circumcised or not.

They were not to carry any flesh outside nor break any of the lambs bones.
When Jesus was crucified, hundreds of years later, His bones were not broken
as was the usual custom to make sure of the death of the one being crucified.
A person could stay alive longer on the cross if he could stand up to get breath
when the Romans broke their legs they could no longer breathe.

If a stranger wanted to partake if the Passover Supper thenhe and all his
household had to be circumcised. All the children of Israel did this as a memorial
of their release from captivity as God brought them out of the land of Egypt.

In chapter 13:1-2 the Lord once again speaks to Moses and tells Him that the Nation
of Israel were to consecrate all of their firstborn, both man or animal, to Lord.
He spared their lives and they belong to Him.