Read Exodus 12:1-20 at Bible Gateway.
Hebrew paragraph divisions:
Exo 12:1-20 {p} Passover + Unleavened Bread instruction
Chiastic structure:
1a) Exo 12:1-11, Instructions for the first Passover (first month, congregation of Israel, fourteenth day, at twilight, unleavened bread);
1a) Exo 12:1-7, Preparing the Passover lamb + marking your houses;
1b) Exo 12:8-9, They shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread + bitter herbs (not raw or boiled);
1c) Exo 12:10a, You shall let none of it remain until morning;
2c) Exo 12:10b, And what remains of it until morning;
2b) Exo 12:10c, You shall burn with fire;
2a) Exo 12:11, You shall eat it in haste, it is the LORD’s Passover;
1b) Exo 12:12a, ‘I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night/ will strike all the firstborn, both man + beast;
central axis) Exo 12:12b, Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD;
2b) Exo 12:13, The blood shall be a mark: when I see the blood, I will pass over you when I strike the land of Egypt;
2a) Exo 12:14-20, Additional instructions for observing the memorial feast (unleavened bread, first month, fourteenth day, at evening, congregation of Israel);
1a.1) Exo 12:14, This day shall be a memorial; you shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an everlasting ordinance;
1a.2) Exo 12:15, Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread: on the first day you shall remove leaven/ he who eats leavened bread from the 1st until the 7th day shall be cut off from Israel;
central axis) Exo 12:16, “On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you;”
2a.1) Exo 12:17, You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance;.
2a.2) Exo 12:18-20 {p} In the 1st month, on the 14th day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the 21st day of the month at evening: for 7 days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for he who eats what is leavened shall be cut off from Israel, whether a stranger or a native of the land.
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