exodus 12

Question	Answer	Note---10-02-2016
		2 this confirms that the month abib, or more commonly known as April was dubbed the first month of the year by God.
		Side note if April is the first month then October would be the 7th month.
		The lamb was chosen on the 10th day and then killed on the 14th day.
	Sodden=boiled, purtenance=thigh
What is the significance of the instructions in verse 11?
Should this ordinance be observed still?		14
What does cut off mean? Is it possible that it meant excommunicated, exiled; or killed?		15
Is it from this command that the priest used to prepare the shew bread on Sabbath?		16 Only the preparation of a man’s food was allowed on that type of Sabbath.
Does it mean that this should be observed through the entire time on Earth?	This probably has the application to whom it was spoken. To their generation as long as that generation lasted. We see Jesus in the new Testament giving a new ordinance in place of the Passover which represents the same thing but appeals to a wider audience.	This is the second time that God says that the Passover should be celebrated perpetually.
There is some symbolism here represented by the 3 weeks but it is unclear what is meant?		12:18-19
		12:24 Note that the ordinance is to be observed forever, but as previously mentioned, this was replaced with the ordinances instituted by Jesus with the discples. Note that in every dispensation there is an ordinance that is born out of an experience. It seems progression for succeeding generations, as Abraham got more than Adam got and Israel got more than Abraham got, and we get more than the Israelites got. Nevertheless, each dispensation has some ordinance which was instituted by God to remember the sacrifice that God made for man.
Was Pharaoh becoming a believer, why did he say this?	Pharaoh was afraid and so he begged Moses that let no more plagues come to me. It seems it is in this context that his phrase “and bless me also” is to be understood.	12:30-32 Pharaoh chases the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, however he concludes his speech by saying “and bless me also”.
		12:33 The Egyptians all, were sorely afraid, and hasted the Israelites out of Egypt.
		12:41 God does not give estimates. He gives exact dates.
		12:42-43The institution of the Passover
Why is Moses instructed that no stranger is to partake of the Passover?	Not only were the Israelites alone delivered, it only makes sense that they alone would celebrate it.	12:44, see vs 48
Was the member of Egypt that came out with the Israelites considered as strangers?	Not sure, however it is likely that they were numbered as Israelites since they left Egypt. As long as strangers were adopted into Israel through circumcision, then they could partake of the Passover.	12:44
We know that this experience is a type, but what is the anti-type? What does coming out of Egypt represent?
Why can’t these people partake?	If these people are just passing through they cannot partake of the Passover, because they are not under Jewish law neither indeed can be brought to be subject to it.	12:45
		12:46The lamb was roasted whole,  and the meat was cut from it and shared amongst the occupants of the home. More than likely this was similar to what we call “Thanksgiving dinner” in the US. Where extended family members meet together and eat together.
	Armies=divisions