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Today’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Daily Lectionary: Exodus 18:5-27; Hebrews 12:1-24 For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:7-8) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. On the night of the first Passover, each Israelite family gathered together in their homes. They ate a hurried meal of unleavened bread and roasted lamb. The blood of the lamb was painted on the doorpost of their homes. During the night the Angel of Death passed over all the homes in Egypt. In every home where there was no blood on the door, the firstborn was killed. But death passed over each home covered in the blood of the lamb. After this plague upon Egypt, enslaved Israel went free (Exodus 12). God told Israel that they should continue to observe the Passover each year. For an entire week, they could have no leaven (yeast) in their homes. They could not have it or e