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The Passover celebration commemorates Israel’s deliverance from over 400 years of slavery in Egypt. To understand the significant importance of the deliverance Israel had from Egypt, some background and explanation of key events are necessary.

Events Leading up to the Passover.

Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, also known as Israel, had 12 children (Genesis 35:23-26):  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. These sons would later be known as the twelve tribes of Israel.  Joseph’s brothers envied him because he dreamed of greatness.  They conspired to kill him but instead sold him for twenty shekels of silver to Ishmaelites.  Joseph, now a slave, was then sold in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of the guard’s Pharaoh and captain.  Joseph found favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.  Joseph’s dreams Egypt would have seven years of great plenty followed by seven years of famine.  (Genesis 41:17-41) Pharaoh put Joseph in charge to administer and prepare for the famine years.  Joseph created food storage bins to store up for the famine years.  After the famine years started, all countries were affected.  Joseph arranged to have his father and 11 brothers and their families move to Canaan near Egypt.  After a new King arose over Egypt, he did not know Joseph.  The Hebrews because so numerous the new Pharaoh was afraid of them.  He afflicted them and made them slaves.  (Exodus 1:1-22).  After over 400 years of bondage, God came to rescue his people through a man named Moses.  When Moses was born, a new Pharaoh ordered every Hebrew male who is born to be thrown into the river.  But God spared Moses when his mother, Jochebed, set Moses into a basket down the river Nile.  The Pharaoh’s daughter found the baby and raised him.  Moses was born Hebrew but was raised as an Egyptian in Pharaoh’s family.  Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, so he killed the Egyptian and fled to Midian.  God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and sent Moses to Egypt to rescue his people (Exodus 3:7-10).  Moses returned to Egypt, and he spoke to Pharoah, telling him to let the Hebrews go free.  Pharaoh refused.  Through Moses, God sent down ten plagues. 

(1) Waters of the Nile River became blood (Exodus 7:14-22). 

(2) Frogs would leave the Nile river and cover the land of Egypt (Exodus 8:1-15).

(3) Lice became throughout the land (Exodus 8:16-19). 

(4) Flies filled the houses of the Egyptians (Exodus 8:20-32). 

(5) The livestock became diseased (Exodus 9:1-7). 

(6) Boils and sores would break out on the people (Exodus 9:8-12)

(7) Hail falls from a clear sky and burns as first on the ground (Exodus 9:13-35)

(8) Locust ate the green plants and every tree (Exodus 10:1-20)

(9) Darkness covered the land of Egypt for three days (Exodus 10:21-29)

(10) Death to all the firstborn Egypt is announced (Exodus 11:1-10)

Instructions for the Passover

(Exodus 12:1-28) The Lord spoke to Moses and Arron, ordering them to speak to the congregation of Israel, telling each family to take a lamb for sacrifice. On the fourteenth day of the tenth month, at twilight, they are to kill the lamb and put its blood on the doorpost and lintel (top support of a door).  They are to roast the lamb and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  At midnight, the Lord will send a destroyer to come and execute every firstborn in Egypt.  The blood on the doorpost will be the sign for the destroyer to “pass over” and not kill that family’s firstborn.  After the tenth plague of the firstborn’s destroyer was complete, the Egyptians cried out to send the Hebrews out of the land of Egypt.

The Hebrews (Israel Nation) went out from Egypt, and God led them to the Red Sea.  Pharaoh had a change of heart and was angry.  He went with his army of chariots and pursued the children of Israel. When Pharaoh and his army found them, they were trapped against the Red Sea.  Moses stretched out his hand, and the sea parted, allowing the nation of Israel to cross on dry ground.  The Egyptian army was held back by the pillar of fire, allowing the Israelites time to travel.  After a time, the pillar of fire was lifted, and the Egyptian army pursued them.  Moses then stretched out his hand over the Red Sea, and the waters on both sides returned to their full depth, and every Egyptian perished in the sea.

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