Two young bullocks, One ram, Seven lambs of the first year, With flour, oil, and wine,

a burnt-offering for a sweet savour, made by fire unto the Lord.

Also one kid for a sin-offering, and his drink-offering (Num. xxviii. 11, &c.).

3rd. On the 14th of the first month (Abib) the Feast of the Passover, also called “the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover” (Exod. xii. 27).

It was a memorial festival throughout the generations of the children of Israel, to mark their deliverance from bondage in Egypt, and the special Providence which protected them from the destroying angel, who procured that deliverance by slaying all the first-born of man and beast in Egypt.

A lamb of the first year, a male from the sheep or goats and without blemish, was killed at even, and the flesh roasted with fire was eaten by every household that night, while the destroying angel was at work around them; but prior to this the blood of the lamb had been sprinkled on the two side posts, and upper door post of the houses, “and the blood shall be to you for a token. . . . And when the Lord seeth the blood, He will pass over you;” so that while every other house had its dead, they ate securely under cover of the sprinkled blood.

This festival was instituted on the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt, and before the giving of the Law, or the appointment of the priesthood of Aaron and his sons. As with the patriarchal sacrifices, it was provided by the head of the household.

In allusion to subsequent times, when their children should inquire the meaning of the service, they were to say “It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover” (Exod. xii. 27).

The Passover has a very marked reference to our Lord Jesus Christ. Shortly before His death He said to His disciples, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer;” and at that supper He said of the bread, which as the master of the feast He broke, “This is My body which is given for you;” and of the cup, “This is the New Testament in My blood, which is shed for you” (Luke xxii. 15–20).

4th. Immediately upon the Paschal feast followed, during the next seven days, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, during which were to be offered, each day—