Commandments About Passover
20 biblical commandments from the Torah related to passover.
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Rest on the first day of Passover
Leviticus 23:7
'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
Do not do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover
Leviticus 23:7
'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
Rest on the seventh day of Passover
Leviticus 23:8
'But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.'"
Do not do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover
Leviticus 23:8
'But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.'"
Do not eat mixtures containing leaven all seven days of Passover
Exodus 12:20
'You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.'"
Do not find leaven in your domain seven days during Passover
Exodus 12:19
Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
Eat unleavened bread on the first night of Passover
Exodus 12:18
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.
The month of Passover (Nisan) shall be the first month
Exodus 12:2
"This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
Each man must count seven weeks from the day the new wheat offering was brought after Passover
Leviticus 23:15
'You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths.
Eat the Passover lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs on the night of the 14th of Nisan
Exodus 12:8
They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Eat the second Passover lamb on the night of the 15th day of the month after Passover
Numbers 9:11
'In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Do not eat the meat of the Passover lamb raw or boiled
Exodus 12:9
Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
Do not take the meat of the Passover lamb from the confines of the group
Exodus 12:46
"It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.
An apostate must not eat from the Passover lamb
Exodus 12:43
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it;
A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from the Passover lamb
Exodus 12:45
"A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it.
An uncircumcised male must not eat from the Passover lamb
Exodus 12:48
"But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
Do not break any bones from the Passover lamb
Exodus 12:46
"It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.
Do not leave any meat of the Passover lamb over until morning
Exodus 12:10
'And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.
Do not leave the meat of the second Passover lamb over until morning
Numbers 9:12
'They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.
Celebrate on Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles and bring a peace offering
Exodus 23:14
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.