OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 12:27

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that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

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Verse 27. Victim, sacrificed upon the altar, in honour of the passage, and so forth It was a true “sacrifice of propitiation,” as the Arab. translates, and of thanksgiving. Calmet.

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