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The Passover and the Exodus

The Passover and the Exodus is dated 1446 BC in the Modern reckoning (another dating: the 'late date', c. 1260 BC) and 1491 BC in the Traditional. It is told in Exodus 12:11. Moses, Aaron are part of it.

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Exodus 12:11 BSB
  1. a Literally Gird up your loins

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning
1446 BC
Traditional reckoning
1491 BC
Another dating
the 'late date', c. 1260 BC
How it's dated
the Bible's numbers

1446 BC is 480 years before Solomon's fourth year (1 Kings 6:1).

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Sources: Theographic event 125; 1 Kings 6:1.

Where is it in the Bible?

Who was there, and where?

Where: Egypt.

Promises kept

  • Not one bone broken: The Passover and the Exodus → The crucifixion, ~1,480 years (Modern).
  • The Passover lamb: The Passover and the Exodus → The Last Supper, ~1,480 years (Modern).

Which verses connect to Exodus 12:11?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

  1. Exodus 12:279 votes

    you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

  2. Ephesians 6:159 votes

    and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.

  3. 1 Corinthians 5:78 votes

    Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

  4. 1 Peter 1:138 votes

    Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

  5. Exodus 12:215 votes

    Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

  6. Exodus 12:435 votes

    And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.