Scriptures Related to Passover

Scripture passages that appear to be directly or at least very closely related to Passover.

• Gen 4:3-16
• Abel brought firstfruits of his flock, while Cain brought firstfruits of his crops.
• Passover? Maybe.
• Gen 18:1-8
• Three angels appear at Abraham’s tent.
• He washed their feet and brought them unleavened bread.
• Prepared a calf and stood while they sat and ate.
• Gen 19:1-3
• Two angels arrive in Sodom where Lot was sitting in the gate.
• He invited them to his home.
• He made a feast with unleavened bread.
• Gen 22:8-19
• V2 – Son as an offering, but a burnt offering, which Passover only partly fits.
• V3 – Took an ass.
• V4 – Three days journey from the place of God’s calling to the altar. (Four days total.)
• V5 – Disciples left behind while the Son goes on with the Father.
• V6 – The Father lays the wood on the Son.
• V7 – Son prays to the Father just before his execution.
• V8 – God will provide a lamb for a burnt offering for His own benefit/purposes.
• V9 – Son is bound and placed on the wood with no word of objection.
• V13 – The Son saved from death.
• V17 – The gates of Hell will not prevail against him.
• V18 – All the nations of the earth blessed through the seed of Abraham.
• V19 – Abraham returns to the disciples and they all return to the Well of Seven Oaths (People of the Completed Covenant) together.
• Exodus 12 - First Passover
• V2-5 – 10 Aviv – Selecting the lamb
• Every man participate in the taking of one lamb per household.
• If the household is too small, then share with your neighbor
• Calculate how many people you need per lamb
• Without blemish
• Male, 1 year old
• Sheep or goats
• V6 – 14 Aviv – Whole congregation assembles and kill their lambs “between the evenings”
• Adam Clarke says “between the evenings” means between noon and sunset. He quotes Maimonides to say that killing the lamb before noon is forbidden.
• John Gill also says this means between noon and sunset. However, he says the Targum of Jonathan says it means between sunset on 13 Aviv and sunset on 14 Aviv.
• Put the blood on the two door posts and lintel
• Eat it that night roasted with fire and eaten with matzo and bitter herbs.
• Must not be raw or boiled, but roasted.
• Eaten with innards. All must be eaten or burned up before morning.
• Eat it with loins girded, staff in hand, and in haste.
• Kill the firstborn of man and beast
• Execute judgment on the gods of Egypt
• Blood identifies Israel
• Day is a memorial to be kept forever
• V15 – 20 – Feast of unleavened bread
• 7 days eat unleavened bread
• 1st day is a convocation and a day of rest.
• No work except what each person needs to eat.
• Sunset Aviv 14 through sunset Aviv 20th.
• 7 days eat unleavened bread. Same for grafted in or native born.
• V21 – Moses instructions re first Passover
• Select lambs according to families and kill it
• Hyssop dipped in blood in the basin
• Strike the lintel and the two side posts.
• Stay inside until morning.
• Ordinance forever.
• Keep it when you come into the land.
• When your children ask why, say
• Sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover
• He passed over the houses of Israel
• Smote the Egyptians
• Delivered our houses
• V39 – Unleavened bread because they didn’t have time for anything else.
• V43 – 50 – Who may eat the Passover
• No foreigners, uncircumcised sojourners or hired servants
• Servants bought with money and circumcised
• Eaten in one house, not divided up.
• No broken bones
• All the congregation of Israel will keep it
• Circumcised sojourners
• One law for native and sojourner
• Exodus 13
• Consecrate the firstborn
• Remember that God brought us out of Egypt and Slavery with a strong hand.
• Passover is a full sensory experience: Taste, See, Touch, Speak, Hear
• Keep it every year
• Teach it to your children
• Four questions
• Understand why you keep it
• Exo 23:14-15 – In the context of abstaining from idolatry
• One of 3 feasts of ascent
• Feast of unleavened bread.
• 7 days
• Unleavened bread
• Month of Aviv
• None appear before me empty
• Exo 29 - ?
• Exo 34:18-20, 25-26 – In the context of abstaining from idolatry.
• Feast of unleavened bread for 7 days
• Month of Aviv
• Firstborn males of all animals belongs to God.
• Redeem the firstborn sons
• None appear before me empty
• Lev 23:1-14
• V5 – Aviv 14 – The Lord’s Passover between the evenings
• V6-7 – Aviv 15 – Feast of unleavened bread for 7 days
• Holy convocation on first day
• No servile work
• V8 – Remainder of the feast
• Fire offerings daily
• 7th day is a holy convocation w/ no servile work
• V9-14 – Firstfruits
• Bring Firstfruits of grain harvest to the priest
• Priest waves the offering on the day after the Sabbath
• Eat no grain of the harvest until Firstfruits
• Num 9:1-14 – First Passover after Exodus
• V2 – Don’t wait until in the Promised Land, but keep it right now.
• V3 – Between evenings, with all statutes and rules
• V6-13 – Unclean or travelling person cannot keep the Passover
• Keep it in the 2nd month on the 14th.
• With unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• Same rules otherwise.
• Sojourners to keep the Passover by same rules. One law for sojourner and native.
• Num 28:16-31 – Offerings for Passover
• V16-15 – Aviv 14 is the Passover. Feast on the 15th. For 7 days eat unleavened bread.
• V18-23 – First day is a convocation. Do no ordinary work.
• Burnt offering of 2 bulls, 1 ram, 7 yearling lambs without blemish.
• Grain offering mixed with oil for each animal.
• 1 male goat for a sin offering as an atonement.
• In addition to the regular daily offerings.
• V24 – Make the same offerings daily during unleavened bread.
• V25 – Seventh day is a convocation with no ordinary work.
• Numbers 33:3-5 –
• Aviv 15 – left Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 16:1-8,16-17 – How and where to keep Passover
• V1 – Keep the new moon of Aviv and keep Passover in the month of Aviv
• V2 – Offer Passover in the place where YHWH chooses to put His name.
• V3-4 – No chametz with it.
• 7 days of matso, the bread of affliction
• Remember that you came out of Egypt.
• No leaven for 7 days in all your territory
• Don’t leave the Passover until morning.
• V5-7 – Only in the place YHWH chooses
• May not offer the Passover in any of your towns.
• Only at the place YHWH chooses to make His name dwell.
• Offer it at sunset.
• Cook it and eat it in the place YHWH chooses.
• In the morning, go back to your homes.
• V8 – 6 days eat matso. The 7th is a holy convocation with no work.
• Joshua 5:2-12 – First Passover in the Land
• V2-9 – Circumcised all those born in the wilderness
• V10 – Kept Passover on the 14th of Aviv
• V11 – The day after Passover they ate the stored grain of the Canaanites. Unleavened bread and parched grain.
• V12 – Manna ceased the next day, but they ate the harvest of the Canaanites that year.
• Judges 6:11-26 – Gideon offers a goat and matso to an angel
• Not Passover because Gideon was threshing wheat which would not be ripe for another two months.
• 2 Samuel 12:1-15 – Who stole the Lamb from those to whom He belongs?
• 2 Kings 23 – Josiah’s revival
• Preceded by destruction of pagan altars.
• Keep Passover as it is written in the Book of the Covenant
• No Passover like this had been kept since before King Saul
• Passover kept to YHWH in Jerusalem in Josiah’s 18th year.
• It was kept, but not universally and not according to God’s commands.
• 2 Chronicles 8 – Passover of Solomon
• Daily burnt offerings during Unleavened Bread
• He seemed to perform the bare minimum, where Josiah made a true celebration
• 2Chr 30-31 – Hezekiah’s Passover
• Invited all the tribes to keep Passover in the 2nd month.
• Insufficient priests were consecrated for the 1st month.
• Had not been keeping Passover regularly.
• Mocked by most in Ephraim and Menasseh.
• A few in Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
• Most of Judah obeyed.
• Many people still were not clean, but the Levites sacrificed their lambs anyway and Hezekiah prayed that God would forgive them because their sin wasn’t deliberate.
• God recognized it and honored his prayer: inward circumcision.
• Kept the feast for an extra 7 days.
• 1000 bulls, 7000 sheep from King Hezekiah and 1000 bulls, 10000 sheep from the princes given to the people as peace offerings.
• Nothing like it in Jerusalem since King David’s time.
• Followed by destruction of pagan altars.
• Restoration of divisions of priests and levites and service of the Temple.
• General revival
• 2Chr 35 – Josiah’s Passover
• Passover in Jerusalem.
• Passover killed on Aviv 14.
• Appointed and encouraged priests at the Temple.
• Restore the Ark to the Temple.
• Kill the Passover first, then prepare to kill the Passovers for all the people
• King gave the people 30k lambs and goats plus 3k bulls.
• King’s officials gave additional 2.6k lambs plus 300 bulls.
• Princes gave another 5k lambs plus 500 bulls.
• Distributed animals to clan groups.
• Roasted Passover lambs and boiled the other offerings.
• Singing by Sons of Asaph
• No Passover like it since Samuel.
• Psalm 34 – Oblique references to Passover
• V4 – YHWH delivered me from all my fears.
• V8 – Taste and see that YHWH is good!
• V14 – Repent from evil.
• V19 – YHWH delivers the righteous from his afflictions.
• V20 – None of his bones are broken.
• V21 – Affliction slays the wicked.
• V22 – YHWH redeems His servants.
• Ezra 6 – First Passover after returning from exile
• V16-17 – Dedication & cleansing
• V18 – Priests arranged in divisions according to Book of Moses.
• V19 – Passover kept on 14 Aviv.
• V21 – Exiled Israelites kept Passover along with any locals who repented from idolatry and worshipped YHWH.
• V22 – Kept Unleavened Bread for 7 days.
• Ezekiel 45 – Passover in the Millenium
• V18-19 – Purify the sanctuary on Aviv 1
• Put some of the blood on the doorposts of the Temple, four corners of the altar, posts of the inner gate.
• V20 – Repeat this on the 7th day of the month to atone for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance.
• V21-22 – Passover
• 14 Aviv
• Feast of Passover
• 7 days of unleavened bread
• Prince provide for himself & the people a young bull for a sin offering
• V23-24 – Unleavened bread
• Prince will provide 7 young bulls and 7 rams on each of the 7 days for a burnt offering. 1 goat daily for a sin offering.
• Grain and oil with each bull and ram.
• Isaiah 16:1-5 – A reference to the Messiah as a lamb?
• Isaiah 53 – The suffering Messiah
• V4 – Afflicted by God, like the wicked. Yet, not wicked, for he was afflicted for our transgressions and not his own.
• V5 – By his stripes we are healed
• V6 – We are the guilty sheep, but God placed our sins on him.
• V7 – A lamb led to the slaughter.
• Zechariah 9:9-12
• V9 – The king riding on a donkey colt.
• V10 – Ephraim & Jerusalem rescued from the chariots and horses of their enemies.
• V11-12 – Prisoners redeemed by covenant blood.
• Matthew 16:5-12 – The leaven of the Pharisees.
• Matthew 20-28 – Yeshua's Last Passover
• Aviv 10
• 20:17-28 – Prophesies that he must be brought low in order to be lifted up.
• 21:1-11 – Triumphal entry
• 21:12-13 – Cleansed the Temple (Aviv 11 in Mark 11)
• 21:14-16 – Healed the sick and confronted by the priests.
• 21:18-19 – Withered the fig tree. It was out of season.
• Aviv 11
• 21:20-25:46 – Examined at the Temple by priests, Pharisees, people, and disciples.
• Aviv 12?
• 26:2 – After two days the Passover is coming.
• Aviv 13
• 26:17 – “first day of matzah” but it wasn’t.
• Go prepare the Passover
• Aviv 14
• Yeshua reclined with the disciples
• 26:23 – The one who dips his bread in the dish with me will betray me.
• 26:26 – Matzah: this is my body. “As they were eating.” Probably not at the end of the seder as today, but the middle piece regardless.
• Christians added the Afikomen as a sign of the second coming.
• 26:27-29 – This is my blood of the covenant for forgiveness of sins.
• I won’t drink again of this fruit of the vine until in my Father’s kingdom.
• Key on “this”. Either he meant all wine or he meant this particular cup.
• 26:47… Betrayed by Judas
• 27:46 – 9th hour, he died.
• 27:57 – Joseph buried the body
• Aviv 15
• 27:62 – Priests requested a guard on the tomb.
• Aviv 16 or 17
• At sunrise on the first day of the week, the women went to the tomb and found Yeshua already risen.
• Mark 8:14-21 – The leaven of the Pharisees.
• Mark 11:1-16:19 – The Feast of Unleavened Bread and Yeshua's Last Passover
• Luke 2:41 – Joseph & Mary went to Jerusalem for Passover every year.
• Luke 12:1-3 – The leaven of the Pharisees.
• Luke 22 – The Feast of Unleavened Bread.
• Luke 24:27
• John 1:29, 36 – John calls Yeshua “The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”.
• The people are frequently referred to as sheep, but only Yeshua is referred to as a lamb, and only in the context of Passover.
• John 2:13-3:21 – Yeshua at Passover
• V13 – Yeshua went to Jerusalem for Passover
• V14-17 – Drove the money-changers out.
• V18-22 – Parable of the Temple rebuilt in 3 days.
• V23-25 – Performed miracles
• 3:1-21 - Nicodemus
• John 5 – Yeshua at Passover?
• V1 – A feast of the Jews at which Yeshua went to Jerusalem. Doesn’t specify Passover, but most commentators say it was.
• V2-16 – Healing at the pool of Bethesda on Shabbat.
• V17-47 – Confrontation with Pharisees re healing on Shabbat.
• John 6:1-71 – Yeshua in Galilee before Passover
• V9 – Barley loaves
• V26-69 – Yeshua as the bread of life, manna sent from heaven to give life eternal.
• John 11:55-21:25
• 11:55 – Jews traveled to Jerusalem
• 12:1 – Six days before Passover
• 18 – Jesus' trial and non-Torah customs of Passover.
• 19:4 – The day of Preparation of the Passover.
• Acts 12:1-23 – Peter arrested during Unleavened Bread. Easy for him to do since Peter would have been in Jerusalem.
• In prison
• Rescued by an angel
• “Get up quickly”
• Chains fell of his hands
• “Dress and put on your sandals”
• Follows the angel
• Iron city gate opens on its own
• Angel leaves him when he’s free
• “Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
• Herod ordered the sentries killed
• People praised Herod as a god.
• Immediately, an angel killed him.
• Acts 20:6-16 – Paul was in Greece during Unleavened Bread, but wanted to get back to Jerusalem for Shavuot.
• 1 Corinthians 5:6-13 – Leaven compared to sin
• A little leaven leavens the whole lump
• Cleanse out the old leaven and be a new, unleavened lump
• Christ, the Passover has been sacrificed
• Celebrate the feast with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
• Evil people are like a leavened lump mixed into the unleavened.
• Galatians 5:2-12 – The leaven of the Pharisees.
• Hebrews 11:24-29 – The first Passover.
• 1 Peter 1:18-19
• Redeemed with blood.
• An unblemished and spotless lamb.
• Revelation – The Lamb in Heaven, a blending of imagery from all of the Feasts.
• 5:6 – Between the throne and the four angels.
• Appearing to have been slain
• 7 horns, 7 eyes, which are the 7 spirits of God
• 5:8 – Opens the scroll
• 5:12-13 – Lamb who was slain to receive power, wealth, wisdom, might, honor, glory, & blessing
• 7 spirits of God?
• 6:1 – Opens the 1st seal
• 6:16 – Wrath of the Lamb
• 7:9-10 – Lamb enthroned and adored
• 7:14-17 – Lamb as savior
• Saints washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb
• Shepherd
• 8:1 – Lamb opens 7th seal
• 12:11 – Satan defeated by the blood of the Lamb and the testimony of the saints.
• 13:8 – Lamb has a book of life listing his people
• 13:11 – An imitation of the Lamb, an antichrist with two horns who speaks like a dragon.
• 14:4 – 144k follow the Lamb, redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb
• 14:10 – Followers of the beast are tormented before the Lamb
• 15:3 – Saints sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.
• 17:14 – 10 kings make war on the Lamb and are defeated.
• 19:7-9 – Marriage of the Lamb has come.
• 21:22-23 – City of the Lamb
• 21:27 – Lamb’s book of life
• 22:1-3 – Throne of God and of the Lamb in the city.
• V2 – Tree of life in its midst with 12 kinds of fruit.