THE LAMB OF THE PASSOVER 



" No soul or you shall eat blood. ... I have given it you upon the 

 altar .... for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. 



" On the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb .... 

 a lamb for a house .... without blemish, a male of the first year. . . . And 

 ye shall keep it up till the fourteenth day .... and kill it in the evening. 

 And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and the 

 upper door posts of the houses wherein they shall eat it. 



And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast as with fire, and unleavened 

 bread ; with bitter herbs shall they eat it. . . . And this day shall be to you 

 a memorial .... ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever." — Exodm. 



" Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, even the bread of affliction." 

 — Deut. 



" And ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the 

 priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord." — Leviticus. 



" The Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world." — Rev. 



RULY and indeed from the foundation ! It 

 may be, perhaps, that Cain's offering of the 

 fruit of the ground, the harvest of flower 

 and seed, was the first made by man, but as 

 we read, " the Lord had respect " — greater 

 respect — " to the blood offering of Abel.'" 

 So, since the beginning when the idea of sacrificing 

 another life for his own first entered the fearful mind of 

 man, the lamb has been slain indeed and a deluge of blood 

 has hidden the sins of humanity from the sight of the 

 Dread One. 



