You
may make the sign of the cross and say
Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Collect
Most
merciful God, You desire everyone to be saved and come to the
knowledge of the truth. Grant that by the preaching of Your Gospel we
may be given that wisdom that leads to salvation. By the working of
Your Holy Spirit keep us attentive to all the teachings of Your Word.
Enlighten our minds, control our wills, and purify our affections.
Let Your Word be a light for our path that neither the pleasures nor
the honors nor the pains of this life may turn away our thoughts from
the fullness of life that is found only in You. Enable us in
sincerity of heart to follow You, the only true God. By Your holy
Word enlighten all who are in error, doubt, or temptation with the
sure and certain knowledge of Your truth that all who live in sin may
be led to repentance. Show mercy and grace to all those suffering any
distress, to those who are sick or hospitalized, and to those facing
death. Let them know the sure comfort of Your holy Word. We commit
ourselves and all for whom we pray to Your fatherly care and
benediction. Be gracious to us and defend us by Your power. Direct us
by Your Spirit that we may daily grow in grace and in the knowledge
of our Savior until we shall stand before You in the joy of
everlasting glory; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives
and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Reading
the Bible
Reading
Exodus
Reading
Exodus 11:1—12:51
The
Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh
and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets
you go, he will drive you away completely. Speak now in the hearing
of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every
woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.” And the Lord
gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the
man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of
Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.
So
Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: About midnight I will go out in
the midst of Egypt, and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall
die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to
the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all
the firstborn of the cattle. There shall be a great cry throughout
all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be
again. But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel,
either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a
distinction between Egypt and Israel. And all these your servants
shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and
all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.”
And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. Then the Lord said to
Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be
multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
Moses
and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord hardened
Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of
his land.
The
Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month
shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month
of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the
tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to
their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household
is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take
according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat
you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from
the goats, 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 at twilight.
“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 it. They shall eat the
flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in
water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And
you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that
remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall
eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your
staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s
Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I
will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and
beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am
the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you
are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague
will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
“This
day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast
to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you
shall keep it as a feast.”
Seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall
remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is
leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall
be cut off from Israel. 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 everyone needs to eat, that alone may be
prepared by you. 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
a statute forever. In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the
month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the
twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven is
to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that
person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is
a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened;
in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”
Then
Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and
select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the
Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is
in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the
blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of
his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to strike
the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the
two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow
the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. You shall observe
this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. And when
you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised,
you shall keep this service. And when your children say to you, ‘What
do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice
of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people
of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our
houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Then
the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses
and Aaron, so they did.
At
midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn
of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the
livestock. 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 someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses
and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both
you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have
said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone,
and bless me also!”
The
Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in
haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” So the people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound
up in their cloaks on their shoulders. The people of Israel had also
done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver
and gold jewelry and for clothing. And the Lord had given the people
favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what
they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
And
the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. A mixed
multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both
flocks and herds. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that
they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they
were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared
any provisions for themselves.
The
time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the
end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went
out from the land of Egypt. It was a night of watching by the Lord,
to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night
of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout
their generations.
And
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the
Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, but every slave that is
bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. No
foreigner or hired servant may eat of it. It shall be eaten in one
house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you
shall not break any of its bones. All the congregation of Israel
shall keep it. If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep
the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he
may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But
no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. There shall be one law for
the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”
All
the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their hosts.
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Apostles'
Creed
C I
believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker
of heaven and earth.
And
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born
of the virgin Mary,
suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
was
crucified, died and was buried.
He
descended into hell.
The
third day He rose again from the dead.
He
ascended into heaven
and
sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From
thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the
holy Christian Church,
the
communion of saints,
the
forgiveness of sins,
the
resurrection of the body,
and
the life T everlasting.
Amen.
The
Second Commandment
You
shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
What
does this mean?
We
should fear and love God so that we do not curse, swear, use satanic
arts, lie, or deceive by His name, but call upon it in every trouble,
pray, praise, and give thanks.
Lord's
Prayer
C Our
Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Benediction
(Aaronic)
P The
Lord bless you and keep you.
The
Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
The
Lord look upon you with favor and T give
you peace.
C Amen.
Acknowledgments
Unless
otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All
rights reserved.
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by Lutheran Service Builder © 2006 Concordia Publishing House.
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