Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Exodus 12:40 - 12:51

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Exodus 12:40 - 12:51


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Further Precepts Concerning the Passover

v. 40. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years,
four long or ten short generations as they were then reckoned.

v. 41. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord,
the great armies that were to wage His wars, went out from the land of Egypt. The departure of them all took place on the same day, on the fifteenth of Abib, the day after the Passover Festival.

v. 42. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; this is that night of the Lord to be observed,
year after year, of all the children of Israel in their generations.

v. 43. And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof.
The statute of the Lord confined participation strictly to the members of the children of Israel.

v. 44. But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him,
whereby he became a member of the Jewish nation and church, then shall he eat thereof.

v. 45. A foreigner,
a non-Israelite merely living in the country, and an hired servant, one merely engaged for a while, shall not eat thereof.

v. 46. In one house shall it be eaten. Thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
The idea of the communion and of the union was to be maintained, and the fact that no bone was broken pointed forward to Christ, Joh_19:36.

v. 47. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it,
shall do and observe what God had here instituted.

v. 48. And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised
and thus be received into the Jewish Church, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof; the privilege was limited to such as had accepted the Jewish doctrines, that believed in the God of the Jews.

v. 49. One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

v. 50. Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they;
that became the custom among them in after-years, Num_9:5; Jos_5:10.

v. 51. And it came to pass the selfsame day, this fifteenth day of Abib, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Herewith ends the story of the Exodus proper, and the story of the events following is next taken up. The people were now separated unto the Lord, to be unto Him a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. This is true also of the New Testament Church until the end of time, as Peter shows, 1Pe_2:9.