Quotes about Ritual

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Therefore you shall keep this statute at the appointed time year after year.

When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.