Ch 12 / 40~7 min
Shemot

Chapter 12

The Lamb Slain, Its Blood Our Shelter

The Pesach lamb — unblemished, its blood covering the doorpost, saving from the malak of death — is the most direct Tanakh type of Yeshua our Pesach.

  1. The Pesach Lamb — Shadow of Yeshua

    A lamb without blemish, slain at twilight, its blood on the doorposts. This is the clearest picture of Yeshua in the entire Torah — our Pesach Lamb, sacrificed for us.

  2. 1YHWH spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
  3. 2“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
  4. 3Speak 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;
  5. 4and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbour next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.
  6. 5Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.
  7. 6You 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.
  8. 7They 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.
  9. 8They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
  10. 9Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
  11. 10You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
  12. 11This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is YHWH’s Pesach.
  13. 12For 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. I will execute judgements against all the gods of Egypt. I am YHWH.
  14. 13The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.Fulfilled · Yochanan 1:29
  15. 14This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to YHWH. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
  16. 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.
  17. 16In the first day there shall be to you a kodesh convocation, and in the seventh day a kodesh convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.
  18. 17You shall observe the Chag HaMatzot; 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.
  19. 18In 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.
  20. 19There 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.
  21. 20You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
  22. The Blood on the Doorposts

    When I see the blood, I will pass over you. Salvation has always been by the blood of the Lamb — not by your merit, but by His covering.

  23. 21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Pesach.
  24. 22You 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. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
  25. 23For YHWH will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, YHWH will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
  26. 24You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
  27. 25It shall happen when you have come to the land which YHWH will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
  28. 26It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
  29. 27that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of YHWH’s Pesach, 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 worshipped.
  30. 28The children of Israel went and did so; as YHWH had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
  31. The Tenth Plague — Death of the Firstborn

    At midnight, the destroyer passes through Egypt. But every household under the blood is safe. This is the cost of redemption and the power of the Lamb's blood.

  32. 29At midnight, YHWH 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.
  33. 30Pharaoh 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.
  34. 31He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from amongst my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve YHWH, as you have said!
  35. 32Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
  36. 33The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
  37. 34The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
  38. 35The 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.
  39. 36YHWH gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
  40. The Exodus Begins

    Six hundred thousand men march out of Egypt — free at last. Four hundred years of slavery end in a single night. When Elohim moves, nothing can hold His people back.

  41. 37The children of Israel travelled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
  42. 38A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
  43. 39They 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.
  44. 40Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
  45. 41At the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the day, all of YHWH’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
  46. 42It is a night to be much observed to YHWH for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of YHWH, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
  47. Instructions for the Pesach

    Elohim commands that Pesach be remembered forever. Every year, the story is retold — and every year, it points to Yeshua, the eternal Lamb who sets you free.

  48. 43YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Pesach. No foreigner shall eat of it,
  49. 44but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
  50. 45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
  51. 46It 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.Fulfilled · Yochanan 19:36
  52. 47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
  53. 48When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Pesach to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
  54. 49One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you.”
  55. 50All the children of Israel did so. As YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
  56. 51That same day, YHWH brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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