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The Passover.
Exodus xii. 3.
On the evening before the Passover God commanded that every family of Israel should slay a lamb, and sprinkle the door-posts before the houses with the blood of the lamb; that so, when the angel of the Lord came down to destroy the first-born of Egypt he might know the houses of Israel from those of Egypt, and pass over them, and save those that dwelt in them from death. This lamb was to bo called the Passover, because God should pass over thoso houses whose doors were sprinkled with its blood. This was the last supper which the children of Israel were ever to eat in Egypt, even the feast of tho Passover. They kept up this feast every year, in order that they might remember the night when the Lord smote the Egyptians.
