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The Feast of the Passover is one of the most significant observances in the Jewish calendar, commemorating the Israelites' deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Instituted by God through Moses, the Passover is a perpetual ordinance for the people of Israel, as detailed in the Book of Exodus. The neglect of this sacred feast was considered a grave offense, punishable by death, underscoring its importance in the covenantal relationship between God and His people.
Biblical FoundationThe institution of the Passover is recorded in
Exodus 12, where God commands the Israelites to sacrifice a lamb without blemish and to mark their doorposts with its blood. This act would spare them from the plague of the firstborn, which God would bring upon Egypt. The Passover was to be observed annually as a lasting ordinance: "This day is to be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD. You are to celebrate it as a permanent statute for the generations to come" (
Exodus 12:14).
Neglect and ConsequencesThe seriousness of observing the Passover is further emphasized in
Numbers 9, where God provides additional instructions for those who are ceremonially unclean or on a journey during the Passover. They are permitted to celebrate the feast in the second month instead of the first. However, the text also warns of severe consequences for those who neglect the observance without valid reason: "But if a man who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not present the
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Numbers 9:13But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and declines to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
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How the People Raised a Sedition against Archelaus, and How He ...
... had appointed for the Jews at this time, which feast is called the Passover [13]
and ... he pleased; but those who kept them did not neglect what Archelaus ...
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Appendix xix. On Eternal Punishment, According to the Rabbis and ...
... and neglect of service proceed from neglect and rejection ... the original: BaPesach,
ie the beginning of the Passover. ... 556, line 7: for on public Feast-days' read ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix xix on eternal punishment.htm
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
... three times in every year in celebrating the Passover, the feast of Pentecost, and
the feast of Tabernacles ... you or any one else for the neglect of duty. ...
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Hymns and Spiritual Songs
... From the 70th to the 109th Hymn, I hope the reader will forgive the neglect of the
rhyme in the first and third ... Christ our passover. ... The gospel feast, Luke 14. ...
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The Book of Jubilees
... seven days; seven weeks after the Passover came Pentecost ... text from the scribes'
or translators' neglect of this ... It was at the feast of Tabernacles that Levi ...
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The Child-Life in Nazareth
... [1141] Although the Passover might call the ... and, last of all, in the week of the
Feast of Tabernacles ... of this, the City only fell because of the neglect of the ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter ix the child-life in.htm
1 Timothy i. 18, 19
... as he himself says in his Epistle to him, "Neglect not the ... the same grace of the
Spirit, it is always a Passover. ... why then is it then called the Paschal feast? ...
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Index of Subjects.
... His considerateness, [339]481; why kept the Passover, [340]485 ... in the Parable of
the Marriage Feast, [534]421 ... be found in deserts, [592]439; neglect of, dangerous ...
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Homilies on the Statues.
... water so called, [1308]352; as a feast to Saul's ... 1322]259, [1323]466; brought to
ruin by neglect of small ... Implacability, in an enemy, punished by God, [1340]475 ...
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The Blood of Sprinkling (Second Sermon. )
... Israel, had heard the commandment concerning the Passover night, and ... the salvation
of your Lord through neglect; for he ... on the last day of the feast, "If any ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 32 1886/the blood of sprinkling second.htm
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