Quotes About Covenant

So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ëAbout midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.í Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

Now the duration of the Israelitesí stay in Egypt was 430 years.

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORDís divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

Then the LORD said to Moses,