They weren't even sure that the deaths would be visited, except that Moses said it would be upon the firstborn in the land. Douglas Stuart: The concern apparently stems rather from Gods desire that the lamb or goat kid adequately symbolize the body of Christ crucified (John 1:36) and, subsequently, the unity of the body of Christ in the sense of the church. Decomposition, the breaking down of substance; thus, leaven has become throughout the scripture a type of sin because of its decomposition, its breaking down, its effect of just permeating the whole by a process of deterioration or breaking down. Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. But Jesus said, "I am the bread of life", He said, "this bread is my body broken for you". enduring word jeremiah 36 When God says to do something, whether I understand it or not, the very wisest thing for me is to go ahead and do it, because I'll find out later on that what God said was right. That is not an opposite of God. The questions that God creates in the mind of a child that give you the opportunity of unfolding to that mind the understanding of the infinite God, to bring that child into a knowledge and a loving relationship with Him. The one will find the amplest confirmation of Exodus 16:1-36 and Numbers 11:1-35 as distinct accounts illustrating sovereign grace and creature-responsibility; the other can hardly avoid seeing a further and independent proof of his ruinous unbelief. But a foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth day of this month every man shall . --- About. 3. 37-42 The children of Israel set forward without delay. At the same time it is never God who makes man an unbeliever. Nothing shows the difference between God's word and the way in which even men of God may handle, or feel it necessary to handle it, more strikingly than this. will have it to mean "armed," in flagrant inconsistency with the context, because it is so taken elsewhere; and this in order to urge the impossibility of 600,000 "warriors." No; they were sheltered, but in the true sense not yet "saved." Abide in Me"( John 15:4 , John 15:7 ). "Seven days you'll eat unleavened bread; and the first day you'll put away leaven out of your houses. (1 Cor 5:6). But Exodus 14:1-31 brings before us another order of ideas. He counts on faith in His own people; but they will always reckon that whatever there may be of good is from Him whatever may be wrong is surely not so. It could be a future picture of Jesus, our Passover, who leads us out of slavery to sin, and into freedom (Gal 5:13-15). (:43-49) FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE CELEBRATED ACCORDING TO SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS. Reason #3 - Furthermore, this was a sacred meal and you did not want pieces of food dropped outside for animals to eat. Not that I would be an unembodied spirit, but my desire is to be clothed upon with the body which is from heaven, for we know that as long as we're at home in this body, we are absent from the Lord. Exodus 12:37 Commentary - James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary THE PILLAR OF CLOUD THE FIRST STAGE OF THE JOURNEY (Exo 12:37-51) How did the Hebrews get from Goshen to Rameses? And your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill it in the evening. He opposes God, but is not the opposite of God. And they spoiled the Egyptians. "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." (25-28) The Altar of Incense (according to the command and description in Exodus 30:1-10). _FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH_] Rameses appears to have been another name for _Goshen_, though it is probable that there might have been a chief city or village in that land, where the. This is what describes Him in His being at least. This is the new beginning for them, beginning in Christ. 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 . But for all that He does not assert it. Get out and get into the wilderness. That was a temporal deliverance, to be celebrated in their generations; this . But what God does, as soon as they are out of the land, is inform them, dont you ever forget, in all your generations, about the Passover. Then they have just the regular year by which they count years, and that comes sometime here in the latter part of September as a general rule, the Jewish New Year.So they have sort of a secular calendar and a religious calendar. By redemption I mean not merely a price paid to purchase us that we may belong to God (this indeed is not the proper import of the word), but rather in its precise meaning this too that God has broken the power of the adversary, ransoming and freeing us for Himself. Exodus 16 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study This latter statement is evidently a rough one, but it is confirmed, and even enlarged, by the more accurate estimate of Numbers 1, 2, which goes into particulars with respect to the several tribes, and makes the exact amount of the adult male population, exclusive of the Levites, to be 625,540 (Numbers 2:32). But the truth is certain, and both clearly revealed. He is bought with a price, as we are often told in scripture, and we know it. Where all was morally glorious, there is nothing finer than this. The flesh of the lamb was to be eaten not raw or sodden, but roast with fire, the strong and evident sign of fierce unsparing divine judgment It must and ought to be so; for herein Christ's death met our sins and God's judgment. The bearing of this on the Christian is most evident. But as to the second point, it is plain that not the writer but the rationalist is guilty of confusion, and loses the profit of the two accounts, which are alike circumstantially and morally distinct. For, on one hand, as surely as He is a consuming fire, so on the other the bush, weak as it is, and ready to vanish away, nevertheless remains to prove that whatever may be the siftings and judicial dealing of God, whatever the trials and searchings of man, yet where He reveals Himself in pitifulness as well as in power (and such it certainly was here), He sustains the object and uses the trial for nothing but good no doubt for His own glory, but consequently for the very best interests of those that are His. Christians claim the freedom from the trap of time, from the ways the world seeks to define us and from the impediments to showing love. Exodus 12:42 Commentaries: It is a night to be observed for the LORD Apion, l. 1. sect. "And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: For he said, Because Jah hath sworn that Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. They lived and believed in Jesus and are now dead. ", then you have the opportunity of sharing with them what God has done, the power of God that was demonstrated. I'd hate to stick around in this old body much longer. Not _'ish_, males, but Hebrew. Now a lot of people that want it to be related to this old body, they want it to be somehow related to their new body. This is inExodus 16:1-36; Exodus 16:1-36. So leaven is, and it's to be excluded, they were to eat the unleavened bread, a memorial. Now as a general rule their eating was just sort of a lounging. Firstborn and the Exodus God deliberately creates questions in their minds to give you an opportunity to teach them the things of God, to make them conscious and aware of God, and the presence of God. 2.) It seems best to see the mixed multitude as a collection of different ethnic groups that used the Israelite exit as their opportunity to flee their own slavery in Egypt. The tenor of Dr. D.'s statement is the more remarkable, because the reference to Succoth occurs in a distinct clause that follows where is only Elohim, after which we have Jehovah once more as before. How could you ever win? It came to pass at the end of 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 ( Exodus 12:39-41 ). Nevertheless God expresses in the most affecting manner His tender interest in them even as they were. The exodus from Egypt lay at the foundation of the national life of Israel. "Now we know in part." But the subject is so familiar to us that we need not enlarge upon the minuti of this feast. Six hundred thousand That is, There was this number of effective men, twenty years old and upwards, who were able to go out to war. The number in the present verses would then be the specific figure for the length of the sojourn. Exodus 12:37-51 View this passage in NIV (Bible Gateway) Harry Bollback, co-founder of Word of Life Fellowship often says it is good to remember the good hand of the Lord, and he will share a miracle story from the early days of Word of Life. It is alleged by Dr. D. (Introd. Because his power is so limited, his authority is so limited, he only works within the limits that God describes and defines for him. The obedience of faith is so important. It is astonishing what a difference it makes when one can afford and has made up one's mind to drop self. If God sent him, what had that to do with the matter? Here is the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt; having obtained their dismission, they set forward without delay, and did not defer to a more convenient season. Commentaries Only the Scriptures provide an infallible, authoritatively inspired revelation of God's will for man (2 Timothy 3:16,17). 37. If so, the poem was not prior to Solomon's time" (i. p. 226)! The number of the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. When held thus in faith it becomes a most practical test for souls; for nothing should be said or done in that assembly but what is suitable to God's dwelling-place. "Jehovah the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you. These two truths combine in the Christian; but there is this difference between them that the world also is "bought," and every man in it; whereas it would be false to say that every man in the world is "redeemed." What an absurd inference it would be that the term "Father" had never been known before? (:39-42) FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE MEMORIALIZED, A. We must never forget the ways in which God has acted before if we are to appreciate what He is doing now: and, in point of fact, our value for and intelligence of these things will be found to go together. What a safeguard then to be childlike and subject to the Lord! So here we find two of the three spoken of in this particular scripture. O. T. i pp. The sea was before them; they were hemmed in on every side, with Pharaoh and his host behind them: how was it possible to conceive a door of deliverance there? Such is the known significance of blood symbolically in scripture. It was impossible for the Spirit, on the one hand, to blame the love that prompted the hand of Moses; it was impossible, on the other, to vindicate the act. The same thing pervades the New Testament. (1) While the Passover was to be celebrated by the whole community. It is commonly known that what is translated "whales" inGenesis 1:21; Genesis 1:21 means the huge creatures of the deep; so that it is not quite correct to restrain it to a "serpent" here, as it is certainly erroneous to call it "whales" there. It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah: for bringing them out from the land of Egypt' this is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.". (37-41) The two principal statements of this passage are(1) that the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt lasted four hundred and thirty years; and (2) that at the time of the departure the number of the men (gbrim) was six hundred thousand. Now here God is declaring that the purpose of these plagues has been that He might execute against all of the gods of Egypt, His judgment. Nevertheless peace is impossible if we have only that which answers to the Passover. 4. 1. Their religious year begins in April. Commentary Read Exodus 12:1-20 Verse 1-20 The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. So what? What then is the true meaning? But the distance between these two places was not so great; for Succoth from Rameses it is computed was eight miles f only. If the numbers of the Exodus given here are not correct, how were the Israelites able to subjugate thirty-two kingdoms of Canaan? Jehovah shows from the very first how all the consequences of His raising and sending Moses to Pharaoh were before His own mind. It was a full exodus with nothing left behind, and the main food of the traveling nation was, of necessity, unleavened bread. You've passed from death unto life. The first of the 42 stations or encampments of the Hebrews. Never do we meet with language like this in the New Testament. A token by which when God sees the blood there on the doorposts, He would pass over that house and the firstborn would not die. 3. Before us is the only trustworthy account of the events mentioned, and we find it entirely satisfactory to accept the only record there is. SUCCOTH has been identified with the "Then he says. Is not this literally, Because the (or a) hand (is) on the throne of Jah, war (is) from Jehovah with Amalek from generation to generation? And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: But every man's servant ( Exodus 12:42-44 ). Consequently in perfect harmony with this all things are known (and no testimony needed by Him), what God is no less than man, with as absolute a comprehension of the future as of the past or present. It is of all consequence that we should feel that we are immediately responsible to God according to the new, intimate, and holy relationship which is ours in virtue of redemption. Pharaoh with his army and court were at that time near the frontier, and Rameses, where a large garrison was kept, was probably the place where the last interview with Moses occurred. It must be done, and with incomparably greater pain and shame to herself than if done in God's time and way. There is also a difference of opinion concerning the identity of the mixed multitude who also went up with them in verse 38. But I know that when He appears, I'm gonna be like Him. 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. All the congregation of Israel might and must eat it, but no stranger unless circumcised, no foreigner, no hired servant, but only he who was bought and circumcised; and when eaten, bitter herbs must accompany it repentance on our part, the fruit of the truth applied to us by grace. Allusions are made in it to a time considerably after the song is said to have been first sung; for example in the seventeenth verse . He never did before. It is by confounding the scriptures that men misunderstand them: if we would indeed enter into the real force of God's word, it must always be by distinguishing the things that differ. It includes instructions about what was necessary to celebrate a new ritual called Passover and a feast involving unleavened bread. It is the author's effort to share his insights about God's The males were to be His, and must be either sacrificed or redeemed. "[34] To these questions it is possible to add others. (g) Ut supra, (antiqu. He who lives and believes in Jesus Christ never dies. Next the difference of description is not only not inconsistent, but most natural in the circumstances respectively. Rameses was evidently the place of general rendezvous, well adapted for that purpose as the principal city of Goshen. They could've challenged the thing that Moses was telling them. Exodus 12:37 NIV - The Israelites journeyed from Rameses - Bible Gateway And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, And the children of Israel journeyed from, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. However Jehovah does declare in full His deep interest in the people. From Rameses to Succoth Rameses appears to have been another name for Goshen, though it is probable that there might have been a chief city or village in that land, where the children of Israel rendezvoused previously to their departure, called Rameses.As the term Succoth signifies booths or tents, it is probable that this place was so named from . True it was rounded off to "four hundred" in the promise to Abraham, and Stephen did the same thing in Acts 7. We wait for nothing except Christ Himself in actual person to take us above. It was to be eaten by the family at a family setting in the house. The total number of the Israelites should therefore be calculated from the males above twelve or fourteen, and would therefore amount to somewhat more than two millions. This type of redemption is now celebrated by Christians every time they partake of the Lords Supper. says Moses. "He will not allow the destroyer". No real information is given concerning them. For who am I to contend with God? He's bent on our destruction. Ordinance respecting the passover. And what a proof is this of never-failing goodness in God! So Moses and Aaron go in and tell Pharaoh the message of Jehovah; and Pharaoh, with the insolence natural]. What name does He take then? Hence it was in no casual sort or merely arresting attention by its wonders that Jehovah here appears in the burning bush. In other words, it was four hundred and thirty years to a day. The sons of Israel, or Church of God, are in a moving state below. And so He does. II. Thus, whatever difficulties might rise before Israel, no matter what their source or character, the day of the Red Sea is always, whether in the Psalms or the prophets, the point to which the heart of an instructed Israelite turned. David Thompson: They met at a city known as Rameses and they traveled to a place known as Succoth some 30 plus miles away. " This is a war which must be without intermission maintained by His people; but it is Jehovah's war. Hence we find here that God permits the full power of the enemy to be arrayed against Israel. A mixed multitude is always an unhealthy thing within the body, but it is always there. He's gonna pass over me. Exodus 12:37 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary - Bible Tools Now that God was vindicated in the household of Moses, his mission could begin. So if the male species made a decision that I am going to be circumcised so I can have a relationship with the God of Israel, it would affect the whole family. The type or principle of this we have here for the first time when Moses says "this day" and speaks about the salvation of Jehovah; and again, later on in the chapter, "Jehovah saved Israel." (:43-45) Instructions Regarding Participation Who is Eligible? Salvation means known conscious deliverance. The believer is not only bought by the precious blood of Christ, but delivered from the power of the enemy, just as Israel was in type here. In Exodus 7:1-25 begins the great struggle, and wonders upon wonders awfully fall on the devoted land of Egypt. let the p AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL JOURNEYED FROM RAMESES TO SUCCOTH,. So they're really to eat the whole thing, "as much as you possibly can. God paid special attention to his people that night, and in response his people of all future generations were expected to come to pay special attention to him on its anniversary. Therefore the change in the body is the mere consequence of what we have already; whereas Christ in heavenly glory as the fruit of redemption and of God's righteousness is the hinge of all that will glorify God and secure the blessing not of the Old Testament saints and the church only but of Israel, the nations, man, the earth, heaven, and all things for ever, around the mighty centre of all. They had with them flocks and herds, even very much cattle. Thus we belong to Him we are not our own, but His. "I have been a stranger in a strange land," is the word of comment that is made upon him. The Israelites then made much use of their small and large cattle during the years in the wilderness, especially in connection with the sacrificial system (e.g., Exod 22:30; Lev and Num, passim). I believe God's Word. Nevertheless it was the name of suffering first, if of such high and widespread glory afterwards. Give nature its place, and what belongs to it; but always maintain the superiority of grace in order to do so. The ordinances of that night, in the annual return of it, were to be carefully observed: This is that night of the Lord, that remarkable night, to be celebrated in all generations. But then what follows this is not the Sabbath, but conflict with the enemy. Cycle. contr. We are never to suppose that the manner of the revelation of God is an unimportant consideration. The issue is the meaning of the word translated thousand (Hebrew eleph). But, on the other hand, when Moses put his hand into his bosom again at the word of God, it became as his other flesh. (Exodus 6:9; Exodus 6:12) But in Exodus 4:31 they believed and rejoiced when he announced deliverance to them. That any difficulty should be raised about the name "Meribah" being used twice on those two contrasted occasions where man behaved equally ill, God equally in grace, only proves the disposition to cavil, especially as on the first occasion their chiding gained them a specific name, which was not given the second time. 236, 237) seem to me the wantonness of incredulity, which, irritated by the divine authority of Scripture, yields to the merest calumny. It exposed him necessarily to the reproach of folly from his brethren. This seems to be conveyed in these three signs. Some, perhaps, willing to leave their country, laid waste by plagues; others, out of curiosity; perhaps a few out of love to them and their religion. When here below Jesus never proclaimed Himself as the Christ on the one hand, or as the Son of God on the other, though truly both, and always accepting and vindicating either when He was thus confessed by others. Exodus 12:37New International Version. But there is another lesson also. May the Lord then grant us unfeigned and growing confidence in all that which He is! And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. Thus is the effrontery of the impious refuted who think it a sufficient ground for their sneers, that this great people could not in so short a time have naturally proceeded from a single family; and therefore they burst out into unrestrained and blasphemous laughter, as if Moses were simply relating what had happened, and not rather extolling the extraordinary power of God in the sudden increase of His Church. In Egypt it was essentially a family feast, and so probably in the wilderness: certainly not one word then ties it to the presence or action of the priests. Compare this with Genesis 46:27 then calculate the distance of time A. Passover instructions. Pi-Ramesu was the main capital of the kings of the nineteenth dynasty, having superseded Tanis, of which it was a suburb. 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