Do you want to die? Neither does most other people. Killing and death is a part of this world, however. Many times in the Bible, YaHVaH instructs his people to offer sacrifices from the animals, though never from a human being. We are special, but then so are the sacrifices. They have many meanings.
Word Number Nine reads, ” You shall not slaughter My blood offering upon leaven, and not leave the feast offering of the Pesach festival overnight until the morning” Exodus 34:25. Though this Word does not correlate with any of the Commandments in Exodus 20 or Deuteronomy 5, Word Nine can be seen in other places in the Bible, such as Exodus 23:18.
This entire commandment/word refers to the Pesach (Passover) done on the evening before the start of the first day of the Festival of Matzoth (see about this Festival). Word Nine is a commanded reminder of having no leavening that night or leaving any of the Pesach meal overnight. You must consume all of it. Traditionally, most Jews/Hebrews will purge all of the leaven from their homes several days beforehand, just to make sure there is none by this date. They do a thorough cleaning of their homes from one end to the other, top to bottom.
Notice that the end of the verse says “Pesach festival.” The Festival of Matzoth is also sometimes referred to as the Pesach Festival because it occurs right after the Pesach offering of the previous evening.
Look at Matthew 27:57-58. “When the evening has come, a man from Haramathayim, and his name was Yoseph, and who he was one of the disciples of Yeshua. And went he unto Piylatos (Pilate) to request the body of Yeshua. And commanded Piylatos (Pilate) to be delivered the body to him.” Do you notice the correlation between this verse and Word Nine on how the offering is not left overnight until morning? Yeshua was our sacrificial lamb offered up for the sins of all mankind during the Pesach over 2,000 years ago. Yoseph fulfilled Word Nine.
Commandment Number Nine (traditionally Number Six) commands, ironically, “You shall not kill.” Yet, they killed an innocent man, Yeshua, to pay for our sins. Tanach commentary on Exodus 20:13 says, “Someone with true belief in God [Elohiym] as the Creator and Sustainer of life will not commit murder” (p. 184). Were those who killed Yeshua true believers? Obviously not.
Because of Yeshua, Word Number Nine has very little meaning today, because He was our one and only sacrifice; plus there is currently no Temple to offer the physical sacrifices at now. Rest assured, the Yehudiy (Jews) will rebuild the Temple and begin offering physical sacrifices again because it is prophesied for the end times.
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