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You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
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Protecting the Sacred
Commentators widely agree that the command to burn the leftovers was to protect the sanctity of the Passover lamb. This prevented the sacred elements from being profaned, used for superstitious rituals, or treated with contempt by the Egyptians. It was a clear instruction to treat what God had consecrated with the utmost respect.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This was afterwards a general law of sacrifices, at once preventing all possibility of profanity and of superstitious abuse. The injunction is on b…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall let nothing of it remain. — So that there might be neither profanation nor superstitious use of what was left. …
Baptist
And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning It was to be all eaten up; a whole Christ is to be received…
The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does thi…
