Verse 4
4. No leavened bread… in all thy coasts seven days Moses here repeats the requirement of Exodus 13:7.
Neither shall… any thing of the flesh… remain… until the morning Comp. Exodus 12:10, Exodus 24:25; Numbers 9:12. None of the lamb was to be kept, for fear that putrefaction might occur. Stanley, in his description of the Samaritan passover, which is still observed on Gerizim, after narrating the manner in which the victims are slain, roasted, and eaten, says: “The remnants were gathered into mats, and put on a wooden grate or hurdle over the hole where the water had been originally boiled; the fire was again lit and a huge bonfire was kindled. By its blaze, and by candles lighted for the purpose, the ground was searched in every direction for the consecrated particles of sacramental elements; and these fragments of the flesh and bone were thrown upon the burning mass.” History of the Jewish Church, Am. ed., part i, p. 564.
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