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Now, while the Lord was breaking Pharaoh down for the final catastrophe, He was building Moses up in the eyes of Pharaoh’s own people. In a word the people of Egypt admired and feared Moses and saw him as a great man. So now the Lord told Moses the plan. To Moses God said, “in spite of all that I have done to the Pharaoh his heart is still hardened and he will not heed; he will not let my people go; but all this is in order that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” “Now,” said the Lord to Moses and Aaron, this month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year.” “Tell all the congregation of Israel, on the tenth day of this month, every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, each house a lamb. But if the household be too small for a lamb, let him join up with his next door neighbor and share a lamb or lambs according to the number of persons to be fed.” “The lamb that is chosen must be without spot or blemish, a male in its first year, whether it’s a goat or a sheep. The lamb so chosen shall be kept until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening.” “And the blood of the lamb shall be gathered and struck on the two uprights of the door and also the cross beam of the house within which the lamb shall be eaten. And they shall eat the flesh roasted with fire in that night, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs. The flesh must not be eaten raw, nor should it be boiled or stewed; it must be roasted with fire and eaten; and none of it shall be kept over until the morning. And if any be left over, it should be burnt with fire. It must not be eaten.” BRAGADAYJAH 193 God does not give vague or uncertain instructions. God qua God is very meticulous when he gives instructions to His people. So he gives specific instructions to Moses with regard to the time, of note; the selection, manner of killing and eating of this special festival which has come down to us as the Passover; a lamb without spot or blemish; a male animal; a young animal; all prefiguring the ultimate Passover; the offering of the lamb without spot or blemish; the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. The blood was to be collected and daubed on the upright and crossbeam of the door within which the roasted lamb was to be eaten; all was to be eaten that night; nothing held over for the morrow. “When you eat it,” God further instructed, “you shall have your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand; you shall eat it in haste; for it is the Lords Passover” In other words, be ready to travel. “For I will Pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt and execute judgment against all for I am the Lord.” “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you 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.” “And this day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations, ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.”