QUESTIONS

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1868

Bro. A. A. F. writes from Iowa: I am much interested in the reports given of Bible Class in the Review, and would be glad to ask a few questions on some points they have passed over.

1. Was the Lamb killed before the commencement of the fourteenth day, or after its close? Ex. xii, 6. Mark xiv, 12.

Ans. Near its close.

2. Did they leave Egypt on the fourteenth?

Ans. On the night following.

3. Why the expressions “And the people took their dough before it was leavened,” verse 34, “And they baked unleavened cakes, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry,” verse 39; when they were expressly forbidden to have any leaven about them? Ex. xii, 8–15, 19, 20, and xiii, 7.

Ans. They were forbidden to have leaven in their houses as they should celebrate this in after years. They had none when they left Egypt as a matter of necessity. The direction about leaven had reference to the future celebration of the memorial.