Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 12: 1-7
MEDITATION
Exodus 12:1-7
1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. Special Instruction given to Moses and Aaron
a. This was to be communicated to the children of Israel.
b. This would become the Passover.
2. A New Beginning for Israel
a. They would have a new Calendar.
b. There was the Egyptian Calendar which they would not be following after they leave Egypt.
3. The month they leave Egypt would be the first year of their religious calendar year.
4. The children of Israel must plan to celebrate a very special event that would take place. It is to be celebrated by each household. This would be a family event.
a. God would pass over Egypt.
b. He would slay the firstborn of all in Egypt:
i. The high-born
ii. The low-born
iii. Even the animals
5. If the household is very small
a. The members can join another family unit.
b. They would form a combined household.
6. The sacrifice of a Lamb
a. A healthy first-year male lamb or goat was to be set apart by each household.
b. The lamb is to be kept from 10th day to 14th day to be sure the lamb was a healthy one. (It stays with the family.)
i. It must be without blemish (Not sick, or lame etc..
ii. This would be the sacrificial lamb that would be slain at twilight.
iii. The blood of the lamb was to be put on the door posts and lintel of the houses.
There was deep symbolic meaning behind this special act.
经文：出埃及记 12：1-7
沉思
《出埃及记 12：1-7》
1 耶和华在埃及地晓谕摩西、亚伦说：
2 “你们要以本月为正月，为一年之首。
3 你们吩咐以色列全会众说：本月初十日，各人要按着父家取羊羔，一家一只。
4 若是一家的人太少，吃不了一只羊羔，本人就要和他隔壁的邻舍共取一只。你们预备羊羔，要按着人数和饭量计算。
5 要无残疾、一岁的公羊羔，你们或从绵羊里取，或从山羊里取，都可以。
6 要留到本月十四日，在黄昏的时候，以色列全会众把羊羔宰了。7 各家要取点血，涂在吃羊羔的房屋左右的门框上和门楣上。