THURSDAY APRIL 1, 2021 Holy Week FIRST READING Prescriptions concerning the paschal meal Reading from the book of Exodus (12, 1-8.11-14)

THURSDAY APRIL 1, 2021 Holy Week 

FIRST READING 

Prescriptions concerning the paschal meal 

Reading from the book of Exodus (12, 1-8.11-14) 

In those days, in the land of Egypt, the Lord said to Moses and to his brother Aaron: “This month will be for you the first of months, it will mark for you the beginning of the year. Speak thus to the whole community of Israel: on the tenth of this month, let one take one lamb per family, one lamb per house. If the household is too small for a lamb, it will take it with its nearest neighbor, depending on the number of people. You will choose the lamb based on what everyone can eat. It will be a flawless beast, a male, of the year. You will take a lamb or a kid. You will keep it until the fourteenth day of the month. In the whole assembly of the community of Israel, they will sacrifice themselves at sunset. Blood will be taken and put on the two uprights and on the lintels of the houses where it will be eaten. Their flesh shall be eaten that night, and shall be eaten roasted in the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. You will eat like this: belt around your back, sandals on your feet, stick in your hand. You will eat in haste: it is the Lord's Passover. I will pass through the land of Egypt that night; I will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Against all the gods of Egypt I will exercise my judgments: I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign to you on the houses where you are. I will see the blood, and I will pass over; you shall not be struck by the plague with which I will strike the land of Egypt. You will eat in haste: it is the Lord's Passover. I will pass through the land of Egypt that night; I will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Against all the gods of Egypt I will exercise my judgments: I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign to you on the houses where you are. I will see the blood, and I will pass over; you shall not be struck by the plague with which I will strike the land of Egypt. You will eat in haste: it is the Lord's Passover. I will pass through the land of Egypt that night; I will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Against all the gods of Egypt I will exercise my judgments: I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign to you on the houses where you are. I will see the blood, and I will pass over; you shall not be struck by the plague with which I will strike the land of Egypt.

That day will be a memorial to you. You will make it a feast of pilgrimage for the Lord. It is a perpetual decree: from age to age you will celebrate it. " 

The Word of the Lord.

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