Read the Bible in a Year - Day 19
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Welcome to Reading the Bible in a Year Day 19.
Today were reading Exodus 11, Exodus 12 and Exodus 13.
Exodus Chapter 11
Exodus 11:1 The LORD said to Moses: I am going to punish the king of Egypt and his people one more time. Then the king will gladly let you leave his land, so that I will stop punishing the Egyptians. He will even chase you out.
Exodus 11:2 Now go and tell my people to ask their Egyptian neighbors for gold and silver jewelry.
Exodus 11:3 So the LORD made the Egyptians greatly respect the Israelites, and everyone, including the king and his officials, considered Moses an important leader.
Exodus 11:4 Moses went to the king and said: I have come to let you know what the LORD is going to do. About midnight he will go through the land of Egypt,
Exodus 11:5 and wherever he goes, the first-born son in every family will die. Your own son will die, and so will the son of the lowest slave woman. Even the first-born males of cattle will die.
Exodus 11:6 Everywhere in Egypt there will be loud crying. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again.
Exodus 11:7 But there won’t be any need for the Israelites to cry. Things will be so quiet that not even a dog will be heard barking. Then you Egyptians will know that the LORD is good to the Israelites, even while he punishes you.
Exodus 11:8 Your leaders will come and bow down, begging me to take my people and leave your country. Then we will leave. Moses was very angry; he turned and left the king.
Exodus 11:9 What the LORD had earlier said to Moses came true. He had said, “The king of Egypt won’t listen. Then I will perform even more miracles.”
Exodus 11:10 So the king of Egypt saw Moses and Aaron work miracles, but the LORD made him stubbornly refuse to let the Israelites leave his country.
Exodus Chapter 12
Exodus 12:1 Some time later the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Exodus 12:2 This month is to be the first month of the year for you.
Exodus 12:3 Tell the people of Israel that on the tenth day of this month the head of each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for his family to eat.
Exodus 12:4 If any family is too small to eat the whole animal, they must share it with their next-door neighbors. Choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. And it must be large enough for everyone to have some of the meat.
Exodus 12:5 (SEE 12:4)
Exodus 12:6 Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.
Exodus 12:7 Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.
Exodus 12:8 That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs and thin bread made without yeast.
Exodus 12:9 Don’t eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted.
Exodus 12:10 Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left.
Exodus 12:11 When you eat the meal, be dressed and ready to travel. Have your sandals on, carry your walking stick in your hand, and eat quickly. This is the Passover Festival in honor of me, your LORD.
Exodus 12:12 That same night I will pass through Egypt and kill the first-born son in every family and the first-born male of all animals. I am the LORD, and I will punish the gods of Egypt.
Exodus 12:13 The blood on the houses will show me where you live, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. Then you won’t be bothered by the terrible disasters I will bring on Egypt.
Exodus 12:14 Remember this day and celebrate it each year as a festival in my honor.
Exodus 12:15 For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. And on the first of these seven days, you must remove all yeast from your homes. If you eat anything made with yeast during this festival, you will no longer be part of Israel.
Exodus 12:16 Meet together for worship on the first and seventh days of the festival. The only work you are allowed to do on either of these two days is that of preparing the bread.
Exodus 12:17 Celebrate this Festival of Thin Bread as a way of remembering the day that I brought your families and tribes out of Egypt. And do this each year.
Exodus 12:18 Begin on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month by eating bread made without yeast. Then continue this celebration until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Exodus 12:19 During these seven days no yeast is allowed in anyone’s home, whether they are native Israelites or not. If you are caught eating anything made with yeast, you will no longer be part of Israel.
Exodus 12:20 Stay away from yeast, no matter where you live. No one is allowed to eat anything made with yeast!
Exodus 12:21 Moses called the leaders of Israel together and said: Each family is to pick out a sheep and kill it for Passover.
Exodus 12:22 Make a brush from a few small branches of a hyssop plant and dip the brush in the bowl that has the blood of the animal in it. Then brush some of the blood above the door and on the posts at each side of the door of your house. After this, everyone is to stay inside.
Exodus 12:23 During that night the LORD will go through the country of Egypt and kill the first-born son in every Egyptian family. He will see where you have put the blood, and he will not come into your house. His angel that brings death will pass over and not kill your first-born sons.
Exodus 12:24 After you have entered the country promised to you by the LORD, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year.
Exodus 12:25 (SEE 12:24)
Exodus 12:26 Your children will ask you, “What are we celebrating?”
Exodus 12:27 And you will answer, “The Passover animal is killed to honor the LORD. We do these things because on that night long ago the LORD passed over the homes of our people in Egypt. He killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians, but he saved our children from death.” After Moses finished speaking, the people of Israel knelt down and worshiped the LORD.
Exodus 12:28 Then they left and did what Moses and Aaron had told them to do.
Exodus 12:29 At midnight the LORD killed the first-born son of every Egyptian family, from the son of the king to the son of every prisoner in jail. He also killed the first-born male of every animal that belonged to the Egyptians.
Exodus 12:30 That night the king, his officials, and everyone else in Egypt got up and started crying bitterly. In every Egyptian home, someone was dead.
Exodus 12:31 During the night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, “Get your people out of my country and leave us alone! Go and worship the LORD, as you have asked.
Exodus 12:32 Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and get out. But ask your God to be kind to me.”
Exodus 12:33 The Egyptians did everything they could to get the Israelites to leave their country fast. They said, “Please hurry and leave. If you don’t, we will all be dead.”
Exodus 12:34 So the Israelites quickly made some bread dough and put it in pans. But they did not mix any yeast in the dough to make it rise. They wrapped cloth around the pans and carried them on their shoulders.
Exodus 12:35 The Israelites had already done what Moses had told them to do. They had gone to their Egyptian neighbors and asked for gold and silver and for clothes.
Exodus 12:36 The LORD had made the Egyptians friendly toward the people of Israel, and they gave them whatever they asked for. In this way they carried away the wealth of the Egyptians when they left Egypt.
Exodus 12:37 The Israelites walked from the city of Rameses to the city of Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand of them, not counting women and children.
Exodus 12:38 Many other people went with them as well, and there were also a lot of sheep, goats, and cattle.
Exodus 12:39 They left Egypt in such a hurry that they did not have time to prepare any food except the bread dough made without yeast. So they baked it and made thin bread.
Exodus 12:40 The LORD’s people left Egypt exactly four hundred thirty years after they had arrived.
Exodus 12:41 (SEE 12:40)
Exodus 12:42 On that night the LORD kept watch for them, and on this same night each year Israel will always keep watch in honor of the LORD.
Exodus 12:43 The LORD gave Moses and Aaron the following instructions for celebrating Passover: No one except Israelites may eat the Passover meal.
Exodus 12:44 Your slaves may eat the meal if they have been circumcised,
Exodus 12:45 but no foreigners who work for you are allowed to have any.
Exodus 12:46 The entire meal must be eaten inside, and no one may leave the house during the celebration. No bones of the Passover lamb may be broken.
Exodus 12:47 And all Israelites must take part in the meal.
Exodus 12:48 If anyone who isn’t an Israelite wants to celebrate Passover with you, every man and boy in that family must first be circumcised. Then they may join in the meal, just like native Israelites. No uncircumcised man or boy may eat the Passover meal!
Exodus 12:49 This law applies both to native Israelites and to those foreigners who live among you.
Exodus 12:50 The Israelites obeyed everything the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron to tell them.
Exodus 12:51 And on that same day the LORD brought Israel’s families and tribes out of Egypt.
Exodus Chapter 13
Exodus 13:1 The LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 13:2 “Dedicate to me the first-born son of every family and the first-born males of your flocks and herds. These belong to me.”
Exodus 13:3 Moses said to the people: Remember this day in the month of Abib. It is the day when the LORD’s mighty power rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Do not eat anything made with yeast.
Exodus 13:4 (SEE 13:3)
Exodus 13:5 The LORD promised your ancestors that he would bring you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites. It is a land rich with milk and honey. Each year during the month of Abib, celebrate these events in the following way:
Exodus 13:6 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day you are to celebrate a festival in honor of the LORD.
Exodus 13:7 During those seven days, you must not eat anything made with yeast or even have yeast anywhere near your homes.
Exodus 13:8 Then on the seventh day you must explain to your children that you do this because the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:9 This celebration will be like wearing a sign on your hand or on your forehead, because then you will pass on to others the teaching of the LORD, whose mighty power brought you out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:10 Celebrate this festival each year at the same time.
Exodus 13:11 The LORD will give you the land of the Canaanites, just as he promised you and your ancestors.
Exodus 13:12 From then on, you must give him every first-born son from your families and every first-born male from your animals, because these belong to him.
Exodus 13:13 You can save the life of a first-born donkey by sacrificing a lamb; if you don’t, you must break the donkey’s neck. You must save every first-born son.
Exodus 13:14 In the future your children will ask what this ceremony means. Explain it to them by saying, “The LORD used his mighty power to rescue us from slavery in Egypt.
Exodus 13:15 The king stubbornly refused to set us free, so the LORD killed the first-born male of every animal and the first-born son of every Egyptian family. This is why we sacrifice to the LORD every first-born male of every animal and save every first-born son.”
Exodus 13:16 This ceremony will serve the same purpose as a sign on your hand or on your forehead to tell how the LORD’s mighty power rescued us from Egypt.
Exodus 13:17 After the king had finally let the people go, the LORD did not lead them through Philistine territory, though that was the shortest way. God had said, “If they are attacked, they may decide to return to Egypt.”
Exodus 13:18 So he led them around through the desert and toward the Red Sea. The Israelites left Egypt, prepared for battle.
Exodus 13:19 Moses had them take along the bones of Joseph, whose dying words had been, “God will come to your rescue, and when he does, be sure to take along my bones.”
Exodus 13:20 The people of Israel left Succoth and camped at Etham at the border of Egypt near the desert.
Exodus 13:21 During the day the LORD went ahead of his people in a thick cloud, and during the night he went ahead of them in a flaming fire. That way the LORD could lead them at all times, whether day or night.
Exodus 13:22 (SEE 13:21)
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