Paschal Lamb (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
James F Driscoll · 1913
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The paschal lamb was the lamb Israelites were commanded to eat with special rites at Passover. Exodus 12 first records the ordinance. To escape the death of Egypt's firstborn, each family was to take an unblemished male lamb of one year on the tenth day of the first month. They kept it to the fourteenth, and sacrificed it in the evening. Its blood, sprinkled on transom and doorposts, marked houses for protection.
The lamb was roasted whole, head, feet, and entrails. It was eaten with unleavened bread and wild lettuce, in haste, loins girded, shoes on, staves in hand, for it is the Lord's Passage. Leftovers were burnt by morning. Numbers and Deuteronomy repeat the rule in shorter form, adding sheep and oxen, and the entry closes by reading the lamb as a figure of Christ.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James F Driscoll |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |