Exodus Worksheet - Chapter 12

Exodus Chapter 12

Delivered from Bondage - New Beginning For the Israelites.

1.  What would this month of deliverance be for the Hebrews? vs. 1-2 -

On the 10th of this month, they were to 'each' one take a 'lamb' for themselves according to their households, a lamb for each household.  Smaller households would join with a neighbor according to the number of persons.  They would divide the lamb for the amount each person would eat.

2. What were the specifics of the lamb they were to choose for each household? vs. 5- 

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3.  How long were they to keep the lamb before they killed it? vs. 6 -

4.  What time were they to kill it on that day? vs. 6 -

this means: between sunset and nightfall

5.  What were they to do with some of the blood from the lamb they slaughtered? vs. 7 -

6.  How were they to prepare the flesh to eat and when were they to eat it? vs. 8, vs. 9 

7.  What were they to eat with the lamb? vs. 8 -

8.  What were they to do with anything left over that was not eaten before morning came? vs. 10 -

9.  What was the manner in which they were to eat the prepared lamb after they had put blood over the door posts and lintel of the house they were in? vs. 11 -

This was the LORD'S Passover!

10.  What would the Lord do that night throughout the entire land of Egypt?  vs. 12 -

11.  What was the Lord's judgment against? vs. 12

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12.  What was the lamb's blood a sign of for the Lord to see when He would "pass over" their house where they lived? 

• What was the result of this? vs. 13 -

13.  This day was to be a memorial to the children of Israel.  They were to celebrate it as a feast to the Lord throughout their generations. 

• What kind of ordinance was it for the Jews? vs. 14 -

14.  For this yearly feast, how many days were they to eat "unleavened" bread? vs. 15 -

15.  What would they do about any "leaven" that was in their house on the first day of the feast? vs. 15 -

16.  What was the punishment for anyone who ate anything that was leavened from the first day until the seventh day? vs. 15 -

17.  What days of the feast were to have a holy assembly?  vs. 16

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• What was the only thing they were allowed to do on those holy assembly days?

18.  What would the name of this 7 day feast to be called and what did it represent for them to remember? vs. 17 -

Every year, on the 14th day of the first month that the Lord had declared a new beginning for them, after eating the passover lamb -  they were to eat unleavened bread until the 21st day of the month at evening (7 days). 

There was to be no leaven found in their houses and if anyone at anything leavened those 7 days they were to be cut off from the people. vs. 18-21

Note about the Jewish Calendar: 

The inauguration of the religious calendar in Israel set up by God Himself was to remind them each new year that their life as the the people of God was grounded in God's redemptive act in the exodus of their bondage from Egypt. 

The Canaanite name for this month was Abib.  Later the Babylonian name Nisan was used.  So this feast is celebrated each year on the 14th day of Nisan on the Jewish calendar.  In comparison to our calendars, this is between the months of March and April, the season of Spring. 

The feasts they celebrate at this time are: 

1) Passover; 2) Unleavened Bread; and 3) Firstfruits. 

Each of these is a foreshadow of Jesus Christ and we see that fulfilled in the New Testament and it is the reason that Christians celebrate Easter about this same time. 

We will look at the parallels on our application today and several times throughout the Old Testament study together.

Instructions Have Gone Forth; It is Now TIME For Action ...

Back to Exodus 12

19.  Moses called all the elders of Israel together and told them to go and take a lamb for their families and slay the Passover lamb.  He told them again that they were to take a bunch of hyssop (an aromatic plant with a hairy surface for spreading), and dip it in the blood to apply the lamb's blood to the lintel and two doorposts of the house they were in.  No one was to go outside the door of their house until morning. 

• What was the blood on the door a safeguard against for the night? vs. 23 -

20.  The Jews were to observe this event as an ordinance forever even after they were in the land of promise. 

• What were they to teach their children when the children wanted to know the meaning of the ritual each time? vs. 27 -

21.  At midnight, the Lord struck the firstborn in the land of Egypt. 

• Who did this include? vs. 29 -

22.  Pharaoh arose in the night awakened by the cry throughout the land of Egypt for there was not a home in the all the land where someone was not dead. 

• What did Pharaoh say to Moses and Aaron at this time? vs. 31-32 -

23.  Why did the Egyptians urge the Israelites to leave in haste? vs. 33 -

24.  The people were dressed and ready as the Lord had instructed them to be (vs.11) and they took the bread dough with them before it was leavened with their kneading bowls bound up in clothes over their shoulders. 

What did they have with them that the Egyptians had given them for provision for the journey? vs. 35-36  -

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25. How many people (not counting the children) journeyed from Rameses in Egypt to Succoth on foot? vs. 37 -

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with the flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.    At this point they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread.

26.  How many years to the 'day' were the children of Israel in the land of Egypt? vs. 40-41 -

27.  What else do we learn about the Lord's Passover lamb in verse 46?

28.  What were the requirements of any who would celebrate the Lord's Passover with the children of Israel? vs.42-51 -

Application:

Record on the verses below how we see our Saviour Jesus represented in the Lord's Passover Lamb:

1) Unblemised Lamb:

• 1 Peter 1:19 -

2) Blood shed; applied: 

• Hebrews 9:22;
• 1 John 1:7 -

3) Without leaven, yeast, symbolic of hypocrisy and sin:

• Luke 12:1;
• 1 Corinthians 5:8 -

4) Jesus our Passover Lamb offered 'once' for 'all':

• 1 Corinthians 5:7;
• Hebrews 7:27 -

5) No bone was broken:

• Numbers 9:12;
• Psalm 34:20;
• John 19:36 -

Your summary and prayer today:

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