Slide 1:The LORD is my strength and my song;        he has become my salvation.        He is my God, and I will praise him,        my father's God, and I will exalt him. Exodus 15:2 Memory Verse #10


Dear Diary, :Dear Diary, Today, we arrived at the Red Sea, and Canteen went looking for treasure. He thought maybe the Israelites had dropped some silver or gold when they left Egypt. We searched all morning. We found two bottle tops and a dirty sock, but no gold. I guess the Israelites had time to be careful, even as they hurried. I think that’s because God had their whole exit planned out. Canteen was a little sad about the gold until we found another clue on the map—which I remembered to bring! We’re headed back to camp to decipher it. D.D.


Slide 3:Hyssop – A small bush with hairy stems. These stems, with their leaves and flowers bunched together, hold fluid well. Ordinance – A rule or law Divisions – most likely 12 tribes of Israel Vigil – a watchful time HUH?


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Slide 5: The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, This month is to be for you the 1st month, the 1st month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the 10th day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, 1 for each household.


Slide 6: If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.


Slide 7: The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.


Slide 8: Take care of them until the 14th day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.


Slide 9:Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.


Slide 10:That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire—head, legs and inner parts.


Slide 11:Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.


Slide 12: On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.


Slide 13: The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.


Slide 14: This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD – a lasting ordinance. For 7 days you are to eat bread made without yeast.


Slide 15: On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. YEAST YEAST


Slide 16: On the 1st day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the 7th day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat—that is all you may do. NO WORK on the 1st and the 7th just cook and eat


Slide 17: Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.


Slide 18: In the 1st month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the 14th day until the evening of the 21st day.


Slide 19:For 7 days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born. Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread."


Slide 20:Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.


Slide 21:Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe.


Slide 22:Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.


Slide 23:Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.


Slide 24: Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?


Slide 25: Then tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians. Then the people bowed down and worshiped.


Slide 26: The Israelites did just what the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.     At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.


Slide 27: Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.


Slide 28:During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.


Slide 29:Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.


Slide 30:The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. For otherwise, we will all die!


Slide 31:So the people took their dough before the yeast was added


Slide 32:And carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.


Slide 33:The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.


Slide 34:The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000men on foot, besides women and children. Rameses Succoth


Slide 35:Many other people went up with them, as well as large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.


Slide 36:With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked cakes of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.


Slide 37:Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD's divisions left Egypt. 430 years =


Slide 38:Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.


Slide 39:Jewish people today still celebrate Passover. Jewish children make a game of searching all through their houses for yeast. Did You Know? ? ? ? ? ? ?


Discussion :Discussion Why do you think other people left Egypt with the Israelites?