1 YHVH said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 "This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
4 and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
Sacrificed lamb represents the sacrifice or overcoming of the selfish, lustful, animalistic nature of each of us, Which must be accomplished before we can develop our higher spiritual nature, pass over. It is by this blood of the Lamb, the spirit of the Divine Mind, the enlightened soul, that humanity is able to pass over from the land of darkness to the land of redemption.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats;
6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.
The time between the 10th and the 14th day is three days. This is the symbolic three days of preparation before the new consciousness is raised up.
7 Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.
8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
It must be cooked in fire. Symbolically, this is the only way we can properly prepare the sacrifice. It is always with fire, representing the creative power of the Will or masculine that the offering must be consumed or transmuted. The admonition not to use water means that the feminine or emotions are not to be used for this part of the preparation.
10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
11 In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is YHVH's passover.
This passage has to do with the process of Regeneration and has direct reference to Moses lifting up his staff in the wilderness and the turning of his rod into a snake.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and the God of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am YHVH.
13 The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land ofEgypt.
Your dwelling place, (your body) must be carefully "marked" with the signs of enlightenment and understanding, for the body reflects the truth within it.
14 "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to YHVH; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses, for if any one eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work shall be done on those days; but what every one must eat, that only may be prepared by you.
17 And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread."
21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23 For YHVH will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, YHVH will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you.
24 You shall observe this rite as an ordinance for you and for your sons for ever.
25 And when you come to the land which YHVH will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.
26 And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'
27 you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of YHVH's passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
The commemoration of Passover is to reinforce the message that this event must be accomplished by each of us. It is an internal process which all must go through to become Soul Conscious or Enlightened.
28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as YHVH had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29 At midnight, YHVH smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.
The first born, the consciousness or prison of the soul, must be changed' passed over; it must, in a sense die. A conversion must take place. This is the true Passover.
30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where one was not dead.
The "great cry" is the protestation of the material part of us which does not want to release its control over us. The sensual and material desires are both strong and subtle. These must be slain, or changed in order to permit the soul to "Passover" from the darkness of Egypt to the Light which is life.