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Institution of the Feast of Passover. And God told Moses. “This day shall be unto you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast day and memorial forever.” By forever, we understand God to be saying until the real Passover has been killed. Christ is the Passover lamb once offered the only true, pure and sufficient sacrifice and oblation. Moreover God commanded, “seven days shall you eat unleavened bread. From the first day, you shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day unto the seventh, that person should be cut off from Israel.” God also commanded what should be the approach to the first and subsequent anniversary commemoration. He said, “the first day shall be a holy convocation, and the seventh day shall be a holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man should eat, that only may be done. You must observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this very day have I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall you observe this day in all your future generations by an ordinance for ever.” God was giving Moses instructions to be passed on to the people He was about to deliver; but at the same time He was speaking to the future generations and telling them why they must observe the Passover in perpetuity. He was telling the children on this day n years ago, “I delivered your forefathers out of the cruel hand of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Tell it to your children and tell them to tell it to their children from generation to generation.” So that to make sure the people did not forget, or misunderstand the particulars necessary for compliance, God made it clear how and for how long the celebration should last. So He directed, “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month at evening. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eats that which is leavened that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel whether he be s stranger or as Israelite by birth. You shall not eat unleavened bread . It shall not be eaten in your houses. More