The Tactless Tongue, Speaking From a Root of Anger

Colossians 4:1-6; James 1:26;1 Peter 3:10; Proverbs 15:1, 11:9, 12:18, 12:25; James 1:19; Proverbs 16:32; 21:23  

We are walking in today:  The Tactless Tongue, Speaking From a Root of Anger


Fiveamprayer we have to consider that which we will speak in every situation!  We and those in the conversation with us will fare better with a thoughtful response and not be in reaction mode.  We have all too many times had our mouths run away with us and cause untold damage but damage all the same.  Taking a selah moment to consider the real problem--the situation, not the person.  That we are not in such a hurry to respond or defend ourselves will give us the time led by the Holy Spirit to respond in the right way, don't forget that silence is a response as well.  This is no longer a battle of words it is the battle of controlling yourself!   We are to treat others how we want to be treated--would you receive your response that is seeking to leap off of your tongue.  Is it kind?  Is it gracious?  Will these words sow seeds that will bear good fruit in the situation?   Will we uplift the good over the bad?  Or do our words give courage or cause discouragement?  This is what we must consider that we are not speaking with out a pause to bridle that tactless tongue.  To hear more on this teaching click here.

The Harsh Tongue--Bashing With Our Words

Proverbs 15:1, 31:26; Isaiah 55:11; Proverbs 16:32; Psalm 57:4; John 8:7; 1 Corinthians 13; Matthew 5:24-25, 5:44, 5:39; James 3:5-6; Proverbs 16:32; James 3:18

We are walking in today:  The Harsh Tongue--Bashing With Our Words

Witness harsh throughout the Bible: Genesis 16:6, 42:7, 42:29-31; Exodus 18:10; Leviticus 25:43, 25:46, 25:53; Deuteronomy 26:6; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 20:10; 1 Kings 12:4; 12:13; Isaiah 19:4; Proverbs 15:1; Daniel 2:15; Ezra 2:59; 2 Chronicles 10:4; Colossians 3:19; 1 Peter 2:18; Jude 1:15-16

Can the words that we use be considered a harsh or crushing blow?  In our current society it is not considered a problem to bash or crush others with our words.  Be it family members, co-workers or others in the community, it can be found in operation very easily.  While these words continue to bruise and burn those who are subjected to this verbal barrage of abuse.  Fiveamprayer we have to understand that we are not to allow our tongues to whip and beat upon people.  As the old saying goes, if you can not say anything nice, say nothing at all.  We should seek to add a positive, loving, kind words to the situation or that they would hear love--instead of seeking how to tear down and obliterate with our words.  We should all desire to speak to others that they are in a better position after you speak to them.  Have a heart of charity to speak kindly and gentle correction in love.  We have in scriptures that we are known by the love that we show one another--John 13:35  (KJV) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.  This display of love we are to show and be known by is especially seen in our words and our tone, in how we speak to everyone.  Whether correcting or warning we can have our tongue be gentle and not cause harm but speak that which is true, in love.  The time that we take to choose the correct words and the pause we use to collect our thoughts and being lead of the Holy Spirit, will accomplish more of showing this love while speaking honestly.  The idea of the words only being nice and not truthful can also be hurtful to either the listener or the speaker.  To hear more of this teaching click here.  https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/playback.html?n=RvxYy/jh3C1

The Know It All Tongue, Part 2

Proverbs 12, 13:7; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Psalm 92:12-14; Job 22:27-28; 1 Kings 17:45-47; Proverbs 3:7, 10:17, 11:14, 13:2; 1 Samuel 16; Proverbs 29:11; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Proverbs 15:1; Psalm 119:163; Titus 1:2; John 8:42-44; Proverbs 18:21, 15:4; Colossians 4:6; James 1:19; John 16:13; Romans 9:1; Matthew 12:33-35; Luke 6:28-29; Romans 12:12-18, 8:31; Isaiah 54:17; Deuteronomy 28:1-2; Psalm 91:9-11; Isaiah 43:2; 2 Timothy 4:16-18; Psalm 5:4-6; 1 John 3:8-9; Revelation 21:8; Proverbs 10:4, 22:29; Romans 10:17; Matthew 6:25-34, 11:28; Philippians 4:6-7; 1 Peter 5:7; Proverbs 13:20, 11:14; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Proverbs 27:17, 13:4; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27; Romans 10:9, 10,13; John 3:16, 3:35-36; 1 John 5:11-13, 5:7; Galatians 5:16-21; 1 Thessalonians 5:22


We are walking in today:  The Know It All Tongue, Part 2

Witness presumptuous throughout the Bible:  H2086 zed arrogant, proud, insolent, presumptuous
Numbers 14:43-44; Deuteronomy 17:12-14, 18:20, 18:22; Jeremiah 48:29; Psalm 19:14; 2 Peter 2:9-11

Fiveamprayer as we continue on this study of the know-it-all tongue we have to know that our words can entrap us or keep us from the trap!  This is why the taming of the tongue is so important!  We know that the power of life and death is in our tongues but this study is really showing us that we will have what we say.  Will be speak what Yahweh has already spoken?  Do we believe He will deliver on all of His word?  The word that never fails and can not be reversed?  Will we rely on our experiences that is connected to our emotions or move in obedience and expectation of what Yahweh has spoken?  When we speak is as important as what we speak.  Those who are selective with their words appear wise and take time to consider before uttering a word.  We should really be checking what is in our hearts, that is what comes bubbling up onto our tongues.  Forgive, release, free those who have harmed you or who seemed to have wronged you.  Do not allow offenses--real or perceived to hold you in bondage to incorrect and dysfunctional words that could be uttered in you hurt or pain.  Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.  How can we watch out for this, by getting godly council from those who are wise, accept correction for those who are returning to the instructions of Yahweh.  This council will also show that the assignment that we have been given is not to be completed by ourselves.  Which is an affront to the know-it-all tongue.  They rather seek to accomplish all by themselves--while putting undue stress and strain on themselves.  In the book of Proverbs, King Solomon, tells us to get council, that that there is a better payoff in a collaboration with those that are wise instead of isolation and arrogance that they can make for a lack luster result.  We are to walk by faith--obedience and not our feelings--experiences.  Walking in our experiences will tie the hands of Almighty God, for that only allows those experiences to be repeated when He can do all things in many different ways!  Jeremiah 29:11 (CJB)  For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai,‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future.  Fiveamprayer we must put down our expectations and walk in His expectations from His instructions.  Which includes our rehearsing His directions for our lives, constantly which leaves no room for negative, self-defeating talk, verbal attacks on others or any other dysfunctional words that are being removed from our repertoire.  Take time to think your words through, purpose your words before uttering them.  The pause before speaking will keep others from harm for our words if wielded without care, are very harmful and causes much damage to the listeners including ourselves.  To hear this again click here. https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/playback.html?n=RvxYy/jhGKN

Weekend Meditation--Walking in the Wisdom of Yahweh

 Proverbs 12; Joshua 1:8; Proverbs 14:12, 22:1; 1 Corinthians 2:12-14; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 18:21; James 3:3-5; Matthew 12:36; Proverbs 24:16; Isaiah 55:8-9; Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8; Exodus 20:5, 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 5:9; Proverbs 13:7; 2 Thessalonians 3:10;
Psalm 92:12-14; Job 22:27-28; 1 Kings 17:45-47; Proverbs 11:14, 13:2; 1 Samuel 16; Proverbs 29:11; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Proverbs 15:1; Psalm 119:163; Titus 1:2; John 8:42-44; Proverbs 15:4; Colossians 4:6; James 1:19; John 16:13; Romans 9:1; Matthew 12:33-35; Luke 6:28-29; Romans 12:12-18; Isaiah 54:17; Deuteronomy 28:1-2; Psalm 91:9-11; Isaiah 43:2; 2 Timothy 4:16-18           

 

We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--Walking in the Wisdom of Yahweh

 

Witness haughty throughout the Bible:  H7311  ruwm – to be high, be set on high, rise up, be lofty, be exalted, to exalt and magnify oneself, by contribution, or offering.  

2 Samuel 22:28; Isaiah 3:16, 10:33, 24:3; Ezekiel 16:50; Zephaniah 3:11; Psalm 131:1, 16:18, 18:12, 21:24



This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living.  This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.  http://store.torah.tv/browse.cfm/torah:-law-or-grace-book/4,4821.html



The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it .  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord, your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.  ​

334. You shall have a holy convocation on the first day of Sukkot --Leviticus 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
335. You shall not do any work on the first day of Sukkot --Leviticus 23:35
336. You shall offer the fire-offering on each of the seven days of Sukkot --Leviticus 23:26
337. You shall have a holy convocation on the eighth day of Sukkot-- (Shemini Atzeret) Leviticus 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
338. You shall not do any work on the eighth day of Sukkot-- Leviticus 23:36
339. You shall take from the four species on the first day Sukkot-- (Lulav) Leviticus 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. 
340. You shall dwell in booths for a seven-day period during Sukkot-- Leviticus 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
341. You shall not sow your field during the seventh year-- (Shemittah) Leviticus 25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
342. You shall not prune your vineyard during the seventh year-- Leviticus 25:4
343. You shall not reap the aftergrowth of your harvest in the seventh year-- Leviticus 25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.​

 

 

In our  study in the taming of the tongue we go to the book of Proverbs to learn how to handle the know it all tongue.  King Solomon, the son of King David  who was given great wisdom by Yahweh--writes to us about wisdom throughout the book Proverbs.  What we can find in this chapter of Proverbs that we must be able to have discipline and take correction.  This is a challenge for the know it all spirit.  They have have much time invested in there intellect and how others view them.  The folly of this thought pattern can easily switch to them being the ones in control, even over Yahweh Himself.  That is so very dangerous and will not bode well for them or their future generations.  For we must not forget that the things that we do wrong, in willful disobedience can effect our children and children's children.  Much the same as the honorable and good things that our forefathers have done we reap those benefits as well.  We have to understand that our actions do not only effect us, but those around us, our children and future generations.  The ability of our tongue to speak life or death can be seen so clearly in this chapter of Proverbs, we must not fall for the deceit of the centuries--that man knows best.  That we have all fallen prey to this idea to the point of downing another person to raise ourselves up.  That we have been in this position at anytime  and won't want to admit that we have operated or are still operating in this spirit.  How can you be instructed in His good and right way if you won't take correction?  Take time out this weekend to listen to this again and really take notes as you look in the mirror to see what you are reflecting back.  We are made in His image and likeness but what reflection do you see in the mirror.  That is where the correction comes in--we should be looking like our Father and doing the things that we see Him doing. To hear this teaching again click here.  https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/playback.html?n=RvxYy/jh0ow

 

Counting the Omer--What's a Omer?

Leviticus 23:15-16


We are walking in today:  Counting the Omer--What's a Omer?

Witness set apart throughout the Bible:  H5674 `abar to sanctify, consecrate to make holy, to passover or by, take away transgression
Exodus 13:12, 19:6, 20:8, 31:13-14, Deuteronomy 5:12, 7:6, 14:2; Ezekiel 36:23; Psalm 4:4; John 17:16-18; Acts 20:32; Romans 6:19


We have looked at the counting of the omer which today we are on day 5.  But what is a omer?  A omer is a unit of measure that generally is the amount of grain that can be obtained from a bundle of grain.  This measurement was used in Jerusalem in the time of the temple,  for the measurement of grain offerings and other dry goods.  Exodus 16:16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
The idea of counting up is a change in our thought process--we usually count down to some thing important.  Which when we reach that day can seem like a let down for there is nothing else to look forward to.  When we count up there is expectation to the day that can carry on past what we are counting up to.  The plans that Yahweh has for us is not diminished with the changing of the date.  For He is beyond time, outside of time--He has given us time as a measurement for our lives.  Our time and His time is totally different, much like His thoughts and plans are not our thoughts and plans!  The counting of the omer begins during the feast of unleavened bread, after the Lord's Passover Exodus 12:27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.  This is when the children of Israel were brought out of slavery in Egypt.  They are counting up to the receiving of the Torah which happens 50 days later on the day of Shavout.  The people were brought out of physical slavery at Passover then with the giving of the Torah brings them out of spiritual slavery.  Leviticus 23:15-16 (KJV)15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.  This was a total change for the people of Israel to be fully delivered, they had to be taken into the wilderness, that they would rely on Yahweh to provide for them.  This is a desert climate so water and provision for the people and the cattle would be a concern.  With the things that Elohim provides in the wilderness to remind them who is capable and in charge, we have the reading daily a section of Psalm 119 to remind us of what He has already done for His people.  As we return to Him with our original understanding to be in the place that He is leading us back to.  This day, has another great occurrence, the giving of the Holy Spirit also happened on this day.  So the importance for those who are believers in Yeshua and also direct their lives according to the Torah have a double reason to observe and desire to count up to this day.  An appointed time of Yahweh, also to celebrate us receiving the Comforter who reminds us of what we have learned.  Fiveamprayer, the more we show up at His appointed times, the more we can experience His presence!  Like any other appointment you don't want to be late nor have to wait to reschedule.  Being on time for your appointment shows that you were looking forward to the meeting.  So stay on schedule and find that in the counting of the omer that your expectation of meeting Yahweh is met.  To hear more of today's teaching click here.

Weekend Meditation--The Meddling Tongue, Being A Busybody

1 Peter 4; Acts 24:16; Proverbs 6:16-19; 1 Timothy 5:13; James 3:3-10; Job 5:21; Psalm 140:1-3; 2 Corinthians 12:20; Proverbs 10:20, 12:18, 15:2,15:4, 31:26; Exodus 4:10-12; 2 Samuel 23:1-2; Esther 7:4; Proverbs 17:28, 21:23, 11:13; Psalms 141:3



We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--The Meddling Tongue, Being A Busybody

Witness meddle throughout the Bible:   H1624 ga'ra to cause stride, contend, stirred up, excite strife, instigate, excite oneself (against foe) wage war,

Deuteronomy 2:5, 2:19;2 Chronicles 25:19, 35:21; Proverbs 17:14, 20:19, 24:21, 25:17; 1 Peter 4:15

This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living.  This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.  http://store.torah.tv/browse.cfm/torah:-law-or-grace-book/4,4821.html


The Fourth Commandment Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it .  Six days you shall work and accomplish all your work; the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord, your God; you shall not do any work--you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidservant, your animal, and your convert within your gates--for in six day the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.  ​

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324. You shall have a Sabbath of complete rest on Yom Kippur --Leviticus 16:29, 31 29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
325. You shall revere the Sanctuary --Leviticus 19:30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.
326. You shall bring an Omer of your First Fruits on the morrow of the rest day after Passover --Leviticus 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
327. You shall count the Omer, seven weeks from First Fruits, until the morrow, 50 days --Leviticus 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
328. You shall bring two loaves of bread as a wave offering on Shavout --Leviticus 23:17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
329. You shall have a holy convocation on Shavout --Leviticus 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
330. You shall not do any laborious work on Shavout --Leviticus 23:21
331. You shall have a holy convocation; a remembrance with shofar blasts on Yom Teruah --Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
332. You shall not do laborious work on Yom Teruah --Leviticus 23:25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
333.  You shall not do any work on Yom Kippur --Leviticus 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.​


The meddler, busybody, nosy, is the one who is in everyone's business--we all know some one and actually have been that person at some point.  Some times even thinking that we are helping out with our meddling.  This is the pursuit of information that is not our business.  And the sharing with others that which is not their business either.  How can we compare our words with a loaded weapon?  Character assassination, is not accomplished with a knife or another weapon but with words.  We have heard that the power of life and death is in our tongue but until this study or re-visit of this tongue taming, did we really realize how much our words matter?  That we have so much weight on the tip of our tongues to cause people so much pain, distress, hurt all due to a lack of control of our words and hasty speech.  How do we keep going around in this circle of those who will destroy people's lives with the lack of control over our words?  The meddler is more dangerous than the gossip who actually receives information directly from the person and them takes theses morsels and uses them for their purpose, irregardless of what is the good and right way.  We are not to be talebearers!  Don't press people for information allow them to share freely or let the issue drop.  Now consider if you are the meddler, would you want someone pumping you for information that you were not willing to share?  Would there be discomfort, embarrassment, anger rising up if you were faced with this situation?  Do you owe every one, every request that they utter towards you?  We have boundaries for the limits that protect both persons that nothing is over stepped or invaded.  Without perimeters we do not know where the line is--that we do not cross it.  To here more of this teaching click here.

Get the Leven Out, Prepare For Passover!

Exodus 12; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:14

We are walking in today:  Get the Leven Out, Prepare For Passover!

Witness set apart throughout the Bible:   H5674 abar  to pass over, cross, cross over, pass over, march over, overflow, go over
Exodus 8:18, 13:12, 19:6, 20:8, 31:13-14; Deuteronomy 5:12, 7:6, 14:2; Ezekiel 36:23; Psalm 4:4; John 17:16-18; Acts 20:32; Rom 6:19


The upcoming feast day of Yahweh is Passover.  On the Hebrew calendar that would be Nissan 14.  As we have been teaching all this week for those who are new and for a reminder to everyone else.  Remember that this day is not a Jewish holiday, this is the Lord's Passover.  Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover.  The children of Israel were directed in Exodus what steps they were to take at the close out of the 10 plagues of Egypt.  That all would know that Yahweh alone is God and all powerful.  Causing all the false gods that were upheld in Egypt to be shown what they are, lifeless and unable to deliver in the smallest things.  This was a lesson learned by the people in Egypt and Israel. 
Do you know that there were a number of people from Egypt that left out with the children of Israel.  Upon closer review of the text we have the instructions to the natural born Israelites and those who come to live among them and walk and live as they do.  Numbers 9:14 (KJV) And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.  Having the witness being set apart which in Hebrew is also defined as pass over, to cross is what the Israelites did after completing the first Passover.  This harkens back to Abram who was sent to a land that Yahweh would show him and became the first Hebrew which can be translated from beyond, one who has crossed over.  Fiveamprayer we are doing the same crossing over from the Greek/Western mindset to return to the Hebrew mindset.  Upon our return we find more similarities than we would expect.  For He knew us before we were born and it is all according to His plan that is not deterred by time, man or anything else.

 Exodus 12  (KJV)

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite 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 the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 And 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.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
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 went out from the land of Egypt.
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 of all the children of Israel in their generations.
43 And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, 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.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.To hear this again click here.