INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history recorded in the Word of God and in any ancient records from many, which records support it, plus archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God, written and preserved for us in our own language, is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Introduction/Start of study

Exodus Chapter 12: THE FIRST MONTH, THEIR FIRST CALENDAR

The Cycle of Freedom

by Jeff Thomas
  1. From Bondage to Moral Certitude
  2. From Moral Certitude to Great Courage
  3. From Great Courage to Liberty;
  4. From Liberty to Abundance;
  5. From Abundance to Selfishness;
  6. From Selfishness to Complacency;
  7. From Complacency to Apathy;
  8. From Apathy to Dependency;
  9. From Dependency to Bondage.

THE TEN PLAGUES UPON EGYPT BY GOD, EXODUS

  1. Water turned to blood (Exodus 7:17)
  2. Plague of frogs (Exodus 8:2)
  3. Plague of lice (Exodus 8:16)
  4. Plague of flies (Exodus 8:20)
  5. Plague of animal disease, a murrain (Exodus 9:2)
  6. Plague of boils and blains (Exodus 9:9)
  7. Plague of deadly, fiery hail (Exodus 9:22)
  8. Plague of locusts (Exodus 10:4)
  9. Plague of darkness (Exodus 10:21)

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  10. Plague of death of the firstborn (Exodus 11:5)

(Exodus 12:12 [KJV])
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

  1. Water Turned to Blood (Hapi. god of the Nile River)
  2. Frogs Coming From the Nile (Heket, Heqet, god of fertility)
  3. Lice From the Earth's Dust (Geb, the sky god)
  4. Swarms of Flies (Khepri, the god of the morning sun, in the form of a scarab beetle)
  5. Death of Cattle and Livestock (Hathor, sky, the god of women, fertility and love.)
  6. Ashes Turned to Boils and Sores (Isis, most popular goddess, of the seat, the throne, most enduring, loved, mother of the Pharaohs)
  7. Hail in the Form of Fire (Nut, sky goddess, esp. the Milky Way, which was worshipped)
  8. Locusts Upon all of the earth in Egypt (Seth, god of chaos and storms)
  9. Three Days of Complete Darkness (Ra, the sun god, circle god). Today we have this sing god worshipped by scientists as "the cosmic egg" from which the universes came, and thus Ra is traced from Egyptian paganism to Greek paganism, pagan Hinduism and then through to today
  10. Death of the Firstborn (Pharaoh, worshipped as a god like all of them). The Jesuit who invented the Big Bang theory, Georges Lemaître, used that as his basis.

In this chapter, Israel spoils the Egyptians who offer anything they want, willingly, due to the plagues, and Israel leaves and gets a calendar:

Nisan
Iyar
Sivan
Tammuz
Av
Elul
Tishrei
Cheshvan
Kislev
Tevet
Shevat
Adar and Adar II
Adar (leap year)

Everything about the Passover Lamb was commanded to be fast, with the ISraelites ready to leave at any moment, as God had said that the Egyptians would THRUST them out, so they were to leave as fast as possible. it was to be sinless, a pure lamb of the sheep or goats, and the bread was to be sinless (unleavened, no yeast), plus bitter herbs to remind them now and forever of the bondage to this world's system, the evil of this wicked world, that our Passover Lamb, the LORD Jesus Christ, freed us from by His own Blood, protecting us from death eternally; the blood of this lamb protecting them from the death angel. God does not really ask Moses and Aaron to ask Pharaoh to leave; He simply brings this plague of death upon Pharaoh, knowign that Pharaoh will now call THEM to say that he finally will let them go, because he finally has had enough suffering. Throughout all of this, Pharaoh has repeated that "I have sinned", and yet he has hardened his own heart. This is a meaningless confession, because he has no intentions of changing from this sin against God and His people, until forced by his own people to let them go, until he HIMSELF is affected in his own household, until he himself suffers more that he can handle. This is like a person who knows they are a sinner, "goes to confession" and does not accept Jesus Christ as their LORD and Saviour. A false profession of faith, from a "churchgoer", which doesn ot save.

(Exodus 12:1-2 [KJV])
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

(Exodus 12:3-4 [KJV])
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: 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.

(Exodus 12:5-6 [KJV])
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 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.

(Genesis 3:15 [KJV])
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

(Genesis 22:8 [KJV])
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

(Exodus 12:7 [KJV])
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

(John 10:7-9 [KJV])
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

(Exodus 12:8 [KJV])
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

(Exodus 12:9 [KJV])
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.

PUR'TENANCE, n. [from the L. pertinens, pertineo. See Appurtenance.] Appurtenance; but applied to the pluck of an animal, Exo 12.

PLUCK, n. The heart, liver and lights of an animal.

(Exodus 12:10 [KJV])
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

(Exodus 12:11 [KJV])
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.

(Exodus 12:12 [KJV])
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

(Exodus 12:13 [KJV])
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

(Exodus 12:14 [KJV])
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.

(Luke 22:19 [KJV])
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

(1 Corinthians 11:24-25 [KJV])
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

(Exodus 12:15 [KJV])
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

(Exodus 12:16 [KJV])
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.

CONVOCATION, n. [L.]
  1. The act of calling or assembling by summons.
  2. An assembly.
    In the first day there shall be a holy convocation. Exo 12.
  3. In England, an assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs. It is held during the session of parliament, and consists of an upper and lower house. In the upper house sit the archbishops and bishops; in the lower house sit the inferior clergy, represented by their proctors, consisting of all the deans and arch-deacons, of one proctor for every chapter, and two for the clergy of every diocese, in all one hundred and forty-three divines, vix. Twenty-two deans, fifty-three arch-deacons, twenty-four prebendaries, and forty-four proctors of the diocesan clergy.
  4. An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

(Exodus 12:17 [KJV])
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

(2 Corinthians 10:3-5 [KJV])
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

(Ephesians 6:17 [KJV])
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

(Exodus 12:18 [KJV])
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.

THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH

(Exodus 12:6 [KJV])
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.

(Exodus 12:18 [KJV])
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.

(Leviticus 23:5 [KJV])
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

(Numbers 9:3 [KJV])
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

(Numbers 9:5 [KJV])
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

(Numbers 9:11 [KJV])
The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

(Numbers 28:16 [KJV])
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

(Joshua 5:10 [KJV])
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

(2 Chronicles 30:15 [KJV])
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

(2 Chronicles 35:1 [KJV])
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

(Ezra 6:19 [KJV])
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

(Esther 9:15 [KJV])
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

(Esther 9:17 [KJV])
On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

(Esther 9:19 [KJV])
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

(Esther 9:21 [KJV])
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

(Ezekiel 45:21 [KJV])
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

(Acts 27:33 [KJV])
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

(Exodus 12:19 [KJV])
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

(Exodus 12:20 [KJV])
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

(1 Corinthians 5:6-8 [KJV])
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

(Exodus 12:21 [KJV])
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

(Exodus 12:22 [KJV])
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.

HYSSOP

(Exodus 12:22 [KJV])
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.

(Leviticus 14:4 [KJV])
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

(Leviticus 14:6 [KJV])
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

(Leviticus 14:49 [KJV])
And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

(Leviticus 14:51 [KJV])
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

(Leviticus 14:52 [KJV])
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

(Numbers 19:6 [KJV])
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

(Numbers 19:18 [KJV])
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

(1 Kings 4:33 [KJV])
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

(Psalms 51:7 [KJV])
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

(John 19:29 [KJV])
Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

(Hebrews 9:19 [KJV])
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

(Exodus 12:23 [KJV])
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.

(Exodus 12:24 [KJV])
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

(Exodus 12:25 [KJV])
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.

(Exodus 12:26 [KJV])
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

(Exodus 12:27 [KJV])
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.

(Exodus 12:28 [KJV])
And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

(Hebrews 11:28 [KJV])
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

(Exodus 12:29 [KJV])
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

(James 2:13 [KJV])
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

(Exodus 12:30 [KJV])
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.

OUR IMPOSSIBLE GOD

(Job 42:2 [KJV])
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

(Jeremiah 32:17 [KJV])
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

(Matthew 19:26 [KJV])
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

(Luke 1:37 [KJV])
For with God nothing shall be impossible.

(Exodus 12:31 [KJV])
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

(Exodus 12:32 [KJV])
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

(Exodus 12:33 [KJV])
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

(Exodus 12:34 [KJV])
And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

"Dough bowl, kneadingtrough"

(Exodus 12:35-36 [KJV])
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

LEND, v.t. pret. and pp. lent.
  1. To grant to another for temporary use, on the express or implied condition that the thing shall be returned; as, to lend a book
  2. To grant a thing to be used, on the condition that its equivalent in kind shall be returned; as, to lend a sum of money, or a loaf of bread.
  3. To afford; to grant; to furnish, in general; as, to lend assistance; to lend an ear to a discourse. Cato, lend me for a while they patience.
  4. To grant for temporary use, on condition of receiving a compensation at certain periods for the use of the thing, and an ultimate return of the thing, or its full value. Thus money is lent on condition of receiving interest for the use, and of having the principal sum returned at the stipulated time. Lend is correlative to borrow.
  5. To permit to use for another's benefit. A lent his name to obtain money from the bank.
  6. To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig. [This sense is used by Paley, and probably may be common in England. But in the United States, I believe, the word is never thus used, except in reference to money. We lend money upon interest, but never lend a coach or horse for a compensation. We use let.]

(Exodus 12:37 [KJV])
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

(Exodus 12:38 [KJV])
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

(Exodus 12:39 [KJV])
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.

(Exodus 12:40 [KJV])
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

THE FOUR HUNDRED YEAR CAPTIVITY

A large amount of controversy arises when this is mentioned as four hundred, versus four hundred and thirty years, making the skeptics smile. However, most skeptics do not know how to actually think, making them skeptics in the first place. They merely repeat what they heard, look for contradictions and accept anything that, without any thought, seems to be a contradiction. They do this in nearly no other place in their lives, just when it comes to the things of God. There is a difference between sojourning and being afflicted. The LORD never said that their total time in Egypt would be four hundred years exactly but, rahter, their affliction would be that. Their time was longer in that land than the actual affliction. While man is capable of all sorts of errors, such as "rounding up", "rounding down" or bald faced lying, God cannot do that, nor would He deceive us. He us precise ; the problem lies within us, not Him. Because we do not understand, it does not ever follow that God made a mistake. If we take the approach of asking within ourselves, "Is this an actual error?", we can always answer ourselves, "Why YES, it IS!". If we believe God's Word is infallible and inerrant, then we will always look for truth, seek answers from it itself. If we beat that Word enough with our skeptical hammer, it will spit out what we want to hear, truth or lies. The problem is in us, not in God's Word!

In other words, if you want to find errors, if you think that God's Word is loaded with errors, if you search for errors expecting to find them, no amount of truth will dissuade your utter conviction that it contains errors, which is no proof that there are any.

(Genesis 15:13 [KJV])
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

(Acts 7:6 [KJV])
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

(Galatians 3:17 [KJV])
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

"but the most obvious seems the inference that the first thirty years in Egypt (seventeen years before Jacob died, thirteen years after his death) were years of favor under Pharaoh, but when the new king arose “which knew not Joseph” (Exodus 1:8), then the Israelites were soon resented and persecuted, and eventually enslaved, remaining in such disfavor for exactly four hundred years."-icr.org

(Genesis 47:28 [KJV])
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

THIRTEEN YEARS LATER...

(Exodus 1:8 [KJV])
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

This would have to be the time between the death of Jacob and the death of that particular Pharaoh is all, so no reason to make hay over it

(Exodus 12:41 [KJV])
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.

(1 Corinthians 10:11 [KJV])
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

(Exodus 12:42 [KJV])
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

(Exodus 12:43 [KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

THE TREATMENT OF STRANGERS IN ISRAEL

(Exodus 12:48 [KJV])
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

(Leviticus 24:22 [KJV])
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.

(Deuteronomy 10:19 [KJV])
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

(Exodus 2:22 [KJV])
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

(Exodus 6:4 [KJV])
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

(Exodus 12:19 [KJV])
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

(Exodus 12:43 [KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

(Exodus 12:48 [KJV])
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

(Exodus 12:49 [KJV])
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

(Exodus 20:10 [KJV])
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

(Exodus 22:21 [KJV])
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

(Exodus 23:9 [KJV])
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

(Exodus 23:12 [KJV])
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

(Exodus 29:33 [KJV])
And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

(Exodus 30:33 [KJV])
Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

(Leviticus 16:29 [KJV])
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

(Leviticus 17:8 [KJV])
And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,

(Leviticus 17:10 [KJV])
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

(Leviticus 17:12 [KJV])
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

(Leviticus 17:13 [KJV])
And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.

(Leviticus 17:15 [KJV])
And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

(Leviticus 18:26 [KJV])
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

(Leviticus 19:10 [KJV])
And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 19:33 [KJV])
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

(Leviticus 19:34 [KJV])
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 20:2 [KJV])
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

(Leviticus 22:10 [KJV])
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

(Leviticus 22:12 [KJV])
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

(Leviticus 22:13 [KJV])
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

(Leviticus 22:18 [KJV])
Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;

(Leviticus 22:25 [KJV])
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

(Leviticus 23:22 [KJV])
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 24:16 [KJV])
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

(Leviticus 24:22 [KJV])
Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.

(Leviticus 25:6 [KJV])
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

(Leviticus 25:23 [KJV])
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

(Leviticus 25:35 [KJV])
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

(Leviticus 25:45 [KJV])
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

(Leviticus 25:47 [KJV])
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

(Numbers 1:51 [KJV])
And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 3:10 [KJV])
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 3:38 [KJV])
But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 9:14 [KJV])
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

(Numbers 15:14 [KJV])
And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.

(Numbers 15:15 [KJV])
One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.

(Numbers 15:16 [KJV])
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

(Numbers 15:26 [KJV])
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

(Numbers 15:29 [KJV])
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

(Numbers 15:30 [KJV])
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

(Numbers 16:40 [KJV])
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

(Numbers 18:4 [KJV])
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

(Numbers 18:7 [KJV])
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

(Numbers 19:10 [KJV])
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

(Numbers 35:15 [KJV])
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

(Deuteronomy 1:16 [KJV])
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

(Deuteronomy 5:14 [KJV])
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

(Deuteronomy 10:18 [KJV])
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

(Deuteronomy 10:19 [KJV])
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 14:21 [KJV])
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

(Deuteronomy 14:29 [KJV])
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

(Deuteronomy 16:11 [KJV])
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

(Deuteronomy 16:14 [KJV])
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

(Deuteronomy 17:15 [KJV])
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

(Deuteronomy 23:7 [KJV])
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

(Deuteronomy 23:20 [KJV])
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

(Deuteronomy 24:14 [KJV])
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

(Deuteronomy 24:17 [KJV])
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

(Deuteronomy 24:19 [KJV])
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

(Deuteronomy 24:20 [KJV])
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

(Deuteronomy 24:21 [KJV])
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

(Deuteronomy 25:5 [KJV])
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

(Deuteronomy 26:11 [KJV])
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

(Deuteronomy 26:12 [KJV])
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

(Deuteronomy 26:13 [KJV])
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

(Deuteronomy 27:19 [KJV])
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

(Deuteronomy 28:43 [KJV])
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

(Deuteronomy 29:11 [KJV])
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

(Deuteronomy 29:22 [KJV])
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;

(Deuteronomy 31:12 [KJV])
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

(Deuteronomy 31:16 [KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

(Exodus 12:44 [KJV])
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

(Exodus 12:45 [KJV])
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

(Exodus 12:46 [KJV])
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

IN THE SAME MANNER...

(1 Corinthians 11:23-30 [KJV])
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

(Exodus 12:47 [KJV])
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

(Exodus 12:48 [KJV])
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

(Exodus 12:50 [KJV])
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

(Ephesians 4:8 [KJV])
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

(Psalms 68:18 [KJV])
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

(Exodus 12:51 [KJV])
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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