Joshua 4-6; Proverbs 1:1-7

Monday's Bible Reading: Joshua 4-6; Proverbs 1:1-7

Passover begins today, and today's Bible reading includes a passage about the very first Passover in the Promised Land:

Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan. —Joshua 5:9-12

Today In Jewish History

14 Nisan

In the Hebrew year 2448 (1312 BCE), the Jews in Egypt offered the Passover lamb, to be eaten later that night at the first Passover Seder. This was an act of great courage, as sheep were regarded as idols in Egyptian society, and the Jews were technically still subject to Egyptian slavery. This was God's way of emphasizing the idea that Egyptian society was in a state of collapse. In times of the Holy Temple, the Passover Lamb would be offered by every Jewish family; many thousands of lambs would be processed and prepared in the Temple during the afternoon hours preceding the Passover holiday. —from Aish.com

To read about Gilgal (Joshua 5:9-12) from a Jewish perspective, go to The Lost City of Gilgal.

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