In allusion to _subsequent_ times, when their children should inquire the meaning of the service, they were to say “It is the _sacrifice_ of the Lord’s passover” (Exod. xii. 27).
The Passover has a very marked reference to our Lord Jesus Christ. Shortly before His death He said to His disciples, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer;” and at that supper He said of the bread, which as the master of the feast He broke, “This is My body which is given for you;” and of the cup, “This is the New Testament in My blood, which is shed for you” (Luke xxii. 15–20).
4th. Immediately upon the Paschal feast followed, during the next seven days, _the Feast of Unleavened Bread_, during which were to be offered, _each day_—
Two young bullocks, For a burnt-offering, with flour and oil, One ram,
and _one goat_ daily for a _sin-offering_ (Num. xxviii. 17–25).
5th. On presenting the _sheaf of First-fruits_ to the Lord, of which it is said “Ye shall neither eat _bread_ nor _parched corn_, nor _green ears_, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God” { 20} (Lev. xxiii. 14). On that day was to be offered a male lamb, without blemish, of the first year, for a burnt-offering, with flour, oil, and wine,—“an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour” (Lev. xxiii. 13).
6th. The _Feast of Pentecost_ (called also feast of weeks, Ex. xxxiv. 22), fifty days later, on presenting to the Lord a _new meat-offering __from their habitations_ (Lev. xxiii. 16). Two wave loaves of fine flour, baken with leaven, “They are the first-fruits unto the Lord” (Lev. xxiii. 17), and the accompanying offerings were—
Seven lambs of first year, For a burnt-offering,
and one kid for _a sin-offering_ (to make atonement—Num. xxviii. 30), and two lambs for a peace-offering (Lev. xxiii. 19).
7th. _At the Feast of Trumpets_, the first of the _seventh_ month—
for a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord, and one kid for a sin-offering “to make atonement for you” (Num. xxix. 2–5).
8th. _On the annual Day of Atonement_, the tenth of the seventh month: _One young bullock_ for a sin-offering, and _a ram_ for a burnt-offering for the high priest and his house (Lev. xvi. 6), and _two kids of the goats_ from the congregation for a sin-offering (one for the annual sin-offering, and one for the scape-goat) (Lev. xvi. 5). Also—