Morning Repost: Yahweh’s Passover Announced
Exodus 12:1 Now Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
The Hebrew calendar was counted from the beginning of creation. "But now in commemoration of their deliverance from Egypt, the ecclesiastical table which regulated the festivals, was ordered to begin with Abib. Many nations have reckoned their existence from some important era in their history: and in this view it was highly proper for the christian church to reckon time from the year of grace, or the birth of our blessed Lord.” (Sutcliffe Commentary)
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
On the 10th day of Abib, "...Jesus Christ our passover entered Jerusalem on this very day...” (Sutcliffe Commentary) with his face set to go to Calvary. A lamb for a household-- salvation is for individual decision, but for the day, the believer must operate by faith. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” (Acts 16:31)
4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 8 Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. 10 You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. 11 And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. "The absence of blemish was especially important in a victim which was to typify One 'holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.' A male. As standing in place of and redeeming the first-born of the males in each family. Of the first year. Perhaps as then more approaching to the ideal of perfect innocence. The requirement was not a usual one. Or from the goats. Theodoret says the proviso was made for the relief of the poorer class of persons; but practically it seems not to have taken effect. When people were poor, their richer neighbours supplied them with lambs (Kalisch).” (Pulpit Commentary)
"Eat it… ROASTED WITH FIRE —…. because it was thus the better type of him who endured the fierceness of divine wrath for us, Lamentations 1:13. [death by fire] WITH UNLEAVENED BREAD—… partly to commemorate their hasty deliverance, which did not allow them time to leaven it, Exodus 12:39; Deuteronomy 16:3. But as the original word for unleavened signifies pure, unmixed, uncorrupted, leaven being a kind of corruption, the use of unleavened bread, no doubt, was enjoined to show them the necessity of sincerity and uprightness: to which quality of leaven the apostle alludes, Galatians 5:2, and 1 Corinthians 5:8. [and the importance of right doctrine; Matthew 16:6; 12] WITH BITTER HERBS — To remind them of their Egyptian bondage, which made their lives bitter to them. WITH YOUR LOINS GIRDED— In a travelling posture, prepared for a journey, which is also the import of the three following particulars. YE SHALL EAT IT IN HASTE — As men expecting every moment to begin the journey." (Benson)
Execution of judgment would occur during the night. You shall let none of the paschal lamb remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. (10) As will be the case for the sinner in the end, the Passover lamb was to be completely eaten by sinner consumption (internalizing the precepts of the faith) or, if any remain in the morning, then destroyed by fire. It must be completely consumed, as the elements of the Lord's Supper ought.
Get ready Christian soldiers. The battle cry has sounded. It is time to leave the sin of Egypt and embark on service to the Lord your God. Destruction is coming to the world, but not by our hands. The Lord Jesus is coming again. It is the Lord's Passover.
12 ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Yahweh.
Yahweh will Himself pass through and slay the firstborn of Egypt. "Dreadful work was to be made this night in Egypt: all the firstborn of man and beast were this night to be slain, and judgment to be executed upon all the gods of Egypt.” (Benson Commentary) "The gods of Egypt. The Jews affirm that the temples of the Egyptians were demolished on the night of their passover. But Elohim sometimes signifies princes and nobles, and the words might refer to their destruction.” (Sutcliffe Commentary)
13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
"The blood of the paschal lamb was to be sprinkled upon the sideposts, and on the upper part of the doorposts, not on the threshold, lest an unhallowed foot should trample upon it; and this solemn, this bloody sign, was to save the sinful Israelites from the destruction which awaited the firstborn and strength of Egypt. Here the glory of the atonement appears. Here the mystical significancy of the blood of the cross, the wood sprinkled with blood appears. Israel was not to be saved by a carnal Messiah reigning in Jerusalem, but by the lamb slain in figure from the foundation of the world. Tremble then, oh my sinful soul, at the decree to destroy the wicked. Haste, haste, to sprinkle thy conscience with this blood of salvation, and to place all thy household under the protection of the bloody sign; so shall the divine justice, which spared not the beloved Son, spare thee from death in the day of destruction.” (Sutcliffe Commentary)
Morning Remix of Yesterday: Feast of Unleavened Bread
Passover is the beginning of life for the believer, as evidenced by changing of the liturgical calendar. But what is the meaning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that follows Passover? I feel like I missed it in yesterday's post. Leaven is a picture of sin in the Bible. It is to be forsaken by the believer on the journey out Egypt-our bondage to sin and death.
"Professing Christianity claims that upon acceptance of that sacrifice, the only remaining obligation is to 'just believe.' Although genuine belief is crucial, there is much more to do in order to qualify for eternal life.
The sacrifice of Christ is what covers the sins of those who truly repent. The definition of sin is found in 1John 3:4: 'Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.' In order to truly repent of sin, one has to stop breaking the Law of God—the Ten Commandments. Christ’s own words in this regard are '…if you will enter into life, keep the commandments' (Matt. 19:17). (The Restored Church of God- rcg.org)
The end-time saints are described as those "who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." (Revelation 14:12)
So: "Once someone has come under the blood of Christ, having been forgiven of past sins, he has the opportunity for a new start.
The very process of coming out of sin is what true Christians must do once their slate has been wiped clean. Even before coming under the sacrifice of Christ, there has to be an acknowledgement and regret of having sinned as a way of life. The process of coming out of sin is not instantaneous—it requires many years of overcoming and character building. This second step of God’s plan is pictured by the Days of Unleavened Bread, which typify putting sin out of our lives."(The Restored Church of God- rcg.org)
Exodus 12:14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
So this day shall be to you a memorial —"for a memorial, &c.—The close analogy traceable in all points between the Jewish and Christian passovers is seen also in the circumstance that both festivals were instituted before the events they were to commemorate had transpired.” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown) "Ye shall keep it a feast . . . by an ordinance for ever.—The Passover is continued in the Eucharist (1Corinthians 5:7-8); and the Easter celebration, which the Church makes binding on all her members, exactly corresponds in time to the Paschal ceremony, and takes its place. In this way the Passover may be regarded as still continuing under Christianity, and as intended to continue, 'even to the end of the world.’” (Ellicott)
15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
"Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Cor 5:7-8) "The Jews were very strict as to the passover, so that no leaven should be found in their houses. But it must be a feast kept in charity, without the leaven of malice; and in sincerity, without the leaven of hypocrisy. It was by an ordinance for ever; so long as we live we must continue feeding upon Christ, rejoicing in him always, with thankful mention of the great things he has done for us.” (Matthew Henry) That soul which does not these things "shall be cut off," according to Aben Ezra, "from the world to come.”
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. 17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same 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.
On the first and seventh days— "there shall be an holy convocation—literally, calling of the people, which was done by sound of trumpets (Nu 10:2), a sacred assembly—for these days were to be regarded as [high day; John 19:31] Sabbaths—excepting only that meat might be cooked on them (Ex 16:23).” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown)
"After the Paschal meal on the evening of the 14th of Abib, there was to be a solemn assembly of the people on the next day for religions worship.” (Pulpit Commentary) After the death of Messiah— after He was cut off- not for Himself but for the people, some followers asked for His body to be taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb... for the next day was the first day of the feast of unleavened bread wherein no manner of work was to be done. This day and those that followed gave the disciples a chance to reflect on the events, and their meaning. Yes, we were responsible for His death; yes, we fled, as it were, but perhaps if we seek Him, He can be found- to forgive us.
The seven following days were to be days of unleavened bread. “This long abstinence from leaven denotes, that the whole lives of those who are Israelites indeed should be without guile, hypocrisy, and malice, and should be spent in sincerity and truth." (Gill’s Exposition)
Before His death, Jesus said “... to those Jews who had believed Him, 'If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’” (John 8:31-32)
During this time, the Crucified and Risen Savior appeared to many. "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time,” (1 Cor 15:3-8) says Paul.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
Whoever, will not humble themselves in this way and seek Him with their whole heart, says Aben Ezra, "he shall be cut off from the world to come.” It does not mean as some radical religious sects say, that they must be put to death, but in certain cases the sinner without these graces becomes disruptive to the congregation. Then they should be cast out of the congregation of Israel. "A person so cut off becomes like one of a heathen nation. He is reduced to the level of an uncircumcised person, being outside the covenant and having no more part in the privileges of the chosen people: see on Genesis 17:14,; and cp. Matthew 18:17; Ephesians 2:12.” (John Dummelow's Commentary) This is done "for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." (1 Cor 5:5)
Morning Remix from Yesterday: Yahweh's Passover
"The Pharaoh-god refused to let Israel go free from slavery despite the Living God's demands through Moses. Pharaoh wanted to keep Israel under his power. God's response to Pharaoh's obstinate defiance in Exodus 7-12 is breathtaking. The one true God of the universe unleashes His power in acts of un-doing creation throughout Pharaoh's land. Order turns into chaos. Light is consumed by darkness. The water becomes a source of death rather than life. The beasts swarm the people and their crops rather than serve them. Finally, just as Pharaoh attempted to destroy God's firstborn son (Ex. 4:22), God now destroys Egypt's with a final plague.
None of the earlier plagues had touched God's people, as they were separated from the Egyptians. Now, the Israelites and the Egyptians are drawn into God's final plague together (Ex. 11:4-5). Israel's involvement in the last plague is significant. If the Israelites did not trust in God's word and follow His instructions; their firstborn would also die."
(The Atonement and the Passover: Exodus 12 by Matt Capps)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2014/april/atonement-and-passover-exodus-12-by-matt-capps.html#bmb=1
In the creation narrative, God Almighty created all things. Among the animals, He spoke the creatures of the field into existence in Genesis 1:24 by the word of His mouth. And as a crowning act, Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and he became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) But now the firstborn of all of Egypt would die, even the creatures of the field. Yet even this plague, bringing the death of the firstborn of Egypt, was mixed with mercy because not all the disobedient in Egypt died.
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning..."
"Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel,.... Not in age but in office, who were either heads of families, or at least principal men in the tribes... "(Gill's Exposition)
Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. "On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb... and keep it...until the fourteenth day of the same month." (Exo12:3-6) "The paschal lambs have been for four days in a special enclosure; now they are to be drawn out, seized and slaughtered.” (Lange Commentary)
For four days, the disciples had loved the Lamb partaking of His teachings and eating the Seder meal with Him and and afterwards singing the hymns of the faith with Him. But now the disciples all forsook Jesus and fled, according to the saying "Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered." (Zechariah 13:7)
And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood in the basin "Hyssop grew commonly on rocks and walls in the Near East and Egypt... The Jews... used it in the purification rite for lepers (Leviticus 14:4; Leviticus 14:6), the purification rite for a plague (Leviticus 14:49-52), and for the red heifer sacrifice ritual (Numbers 19:2-6). 'The hairy surface of its leaves and branches holds liquids well and makes it suitable as a sprinkling device for purification rituals.' [Youngblood,]" (Dr. Thomas Constable)…
Blood that is in the basin.—"The word translated 'basin' has another meaning also, viz., 'threshold;' and this meaning was preferred in the present place both by the LXX. and by Jerome..." (Ellicott) This signifies that the lambs were to be killed in the threshold of the home, signifying that the occupants were responsible for the death of the victim... and the blood was to be applied with hyssop to the lintel and two doorpost. Likewise, individuals must understand that Jesus died for their sins, as well as apply the blood of Jesus to the doorpost or their hearts by faith.
23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
For the Lord will pass though to strike the Egyptians,... "but when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and upon the two side posts... the Lord will pass over the door; and the house where this blood is sprinkled, and go to the next, or where Egyptians dwell; and thus justice passes over, and passes by, acquits and discharges them who are interested in the blood and sacrifice of Christ: and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you..." (Gill's Exposition)
24 And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. 25 It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service. 26 And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27a that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’”
Why tell the story? Because it was an actual story of deliverance of Israel from physical slavery in Egypt and therefore builds faith. Also, there is an intermediate application to Christ and His Church in the spiritual delivery from sin and death. And finally, there is an ultimate and eternal meaning for the end time and the consummation of all things, And that is that the penalty for sin is death.
"The Israelitish child will not 'unthinkingly practice a dead worship; he will ask: What does it mean? and the Israelitish father must not suppress the questions of the growing mind, but answer them, and thus begin the spiritualizing [the explanation of the spiritual significance] of the paschal rite." (Lange Commentary)
27b So the people bowed their heads and worshiped. 28 Then the children of Israel went away and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
"Worship and obedience occur together again here... These are the two proper responses to God's provision of redemption. They express true faith... 'The section closes with one of those rare notices in Israel's history: they did exactly what the Lord had commanded (Exo12:28)-and well they might after witnessing what had happened to the obstinate king and people of Egypt!' [Kaiser] 'By this act of obedience and faith, the people of Israel made it manifest that they had put their trust in Jehovah; and thus the act became their redemption.' [Johnson]" (Dr. Thomas Constable)
The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn
"Armageddon - The very word strikes terror into the minds of many people! It was the description given to the Gulf War: before that to Vietnam, and before that to Hitler's attempted conquest of Europe. Even today media correspondents from the former Yugoslavia talk about a coming 'Armageddon' in the Balkans if the current Bosnia crisis is not resolved.
On the other hand, Bible-thumping televangelists, popular preachers, and writers of Christian paper back books warn of a time when the world will come to an end with what Sadam Hussein once called the 'Mother of Battles"!
So what, where and when will Armageddon be? Does the Bible have the answer?
... Popular belief is that it refers to some forthcoming battle involving Russia, Arabs, Israel and others on the plain of Esdraelon in Northern Israel which is also described as Jezreel or the valley of (Megiddo."Armageddon-- By John Ramsden) http://biblemagazine.com/magazine/vol-9/issue-1/armag.html
But I believe that it is the final battle after the resurrection of the unjust at the end of time when the wicked – all of them from every generation- are raised from the dead only to be deceived again. They attack the New Jerusalem. All of the saints are safe inside. The wicked attack but they are annihilated in that consuming fire of Yahweh God of Israel.
Exodus 12:29 And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. 30 So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
"At midnight, the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt—At the moment when the Israelites were observing the newly instituted feast in the singular manner described, the threatened calamity overtook the Egyptians." (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary)
"So Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead... of these houses, in which any first born lived, either of men of beasts." (Geneva Study Bible) "In every family in which the firstborn child had been a male, that child was stricken with death." (Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers)
"It is more easy to imagine than describe the confusion and terror of that people suddenly roused from sleep and enveloped in darkness—none could assist their neighbors when the groans of the dying and the wild shrieks of mourners were heard everywhere around. The hope of every family was destroyed at a stroke. This judgment, terrible though it was, evinced the equity of divine retribution." (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary)
They did not obey Yahweh and so death was throughout the land. "It reached from the throne to the dungeon: prince and peasant stand upon the same level before God's judgments. The destroying angel entered every dwelling unmarked with blood, as the messenger of woe. He did his dreadful errand... It will be thus in that dreadful hour when the Son of man shall visit sinners with the last judgment." (Matthew Henry)
“The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son,and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves; all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves." (Zechariah 10:7-14)
"Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." (Revelation 20:7-10)
The Day of Resurrection
Exodus 12:43 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it. 44 But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it...
"Lord said... Such instructions were needed when the Israelites were joined by the 'mixed multitude:' of strangers... No stranger - Literally, 'son of a stranger.' The term is general; it includes all who were aliens from Israel, until they were incorporated into the nation by circumcision." (Barnes Notes)
46 "In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones...
"Three regulations designed to emphasize the unity of the company partaking of each passover (cf. vv. 4, 9; 1 Corinthians 10:17): one lamb was always to be eaten in one house; no part of the flesh was to be carried out of the house; and (in dressing the Paschal lamb) no bone in it was to be broken (cf. Numbers 9:12; also John 19:36, Psalm 34:20)." (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges) Likewise, "It may have been to mark the unity of the Church in Christ that his bones were not broken, and in view especially of that unity, that the type was made to correspond in this particular with the antitype. (See John 19:33-36.)" (Pulpit Commentary)
47 "All the congregation of Israel shall keep it...
"In times to come, all the congregation of Israel must keep the passover...This taught the Jews that their being a nation favoured by God, entitled them to their privileges, not their descent from Abraham. Christ our passover is sacrificed for us, 1Co 5:7; his blood is the only ransom for our souls; without the shedding of it there is no remission; without the sprinkling of it there can be no salvation. Have we, by faith in him, sheltered our souls from deserved vengeance under the protection of his atoning blood?" (Matthew Henry)
48 "And when a stranger dwells with you and wants to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it. 49 One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”
No stranger that was uncircumcised might eat of it... "Neither may any now approach the Lord’s supper who ... [are] not first circumcised in heart. Any stranger that was circumcised might eat of the passover, even servants. Here is an indication of favour to the poor Gentiles, that the stranger, if circumcised, stands upon the same level with the home-born Israelite; one law for both. This was a mortification to the Jews, and taught them that it was their dedication to God, not their descent from Abraham, that entitled them to their privileges."(Benson Commentary)
Speaking of the Lord's supper, Paul said, "Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup." (1 Corinthians 11:27-28)
50 Thus all the children of Israel did; as Yahweh, Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51 And it came to pass, on that very same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.
"Thus did all the children of Israel,.... They slew a lamb, and roasted and ate it, with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs, and took a bunch of hyssop, and dipped it in the blood, and struck the lintel and the side posts of the doors of their houses: this they did on the night of their deliverance out of Egypt:
as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they; being instructed by them; which is an instance of their ready and cheerful obedience to the divine will, which they were under great obligation to perform, from a grateful sense of the wonderful mercy and favour they now were made partakers of." (Gill's Exposition) And He brought them out of slavery in Egypt.