The Passover lamb was not to be eaten raw or boiled but roasted with fire Exo. You are the Lamb of God who was judged for us as You bore our sin. Lord, we believe into You as our Redeemer! We believe that You died as our Redeemer, being roasted by the holy fire of God, and we eat You as our Passover lamb roasted with fire!
When it comes to eating a lamb, some may prefer the leg, others the inward parts, and still others some other parts of the lamb. But the children of Israel were to eat the lamb with its head, legs, and inward parts Exo. This means that we need to take Christ in His entirety with His wisdom the head of the lamb , His activity and move the legs of the lamb , and His inward affection and feeling the inward parts of the lamb.
We need to eat Christ in His entirety, not pick on aspects of Christ that we like. Christ is to us the wisdom of God 1 Cor. We need to take the person of Christ as our person, including His head, His inwards, and His legs. This practice stems from lamb's original purpose as a sacrificial animal in Judaism, and should only be slaughtered for Temple sacrifice. Sephardic Jews differ in this practice. This sect, which settled throughout present-day Spain and Portugal, eat lamb at Passover to symbolically re-enact the exodus of Jews from Egypt.
This group can enjoy pan-seared lamb, but still can't roast the meat. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. There is no mention of these sacrifices being made with fire. However that would be the most likely manner they would be made and it is unlikely they would have been made by boiling.
It also recalls the first zebah in Scripture made between Jacob and Laban when Jacob exited Paddan-aram and returned to Israel. As commentaries note Leviticus has no instruction on the Passover sacrifice but it does identify the zebah sacrifice as the peace offering:. Leviticus ESV. The animal of the peace offering could be taken from either herds or the flocks and Chapter 3 describes how the sacrifice would be done for each of the different animals: one from the herd, a lamb, or a goat.
Of the 3 the lamb offered had two unique aspects:. If he offers a lamb… …the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the LORD. The role of the priest when the lamb is sacrificed as a peace offering also parallels the first Passover where the father of each house not only Aaron or his sons selected and sacrificed the lamb. Among the sacrifices described in Leviticus, boiling what is eaten separates the sin offering from all others:. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy.
The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it… … And the earthenware vessel in which it was boiled shall be broken… Lev ESV.
Therefore a Passover remembrance is also a reminder that the sacrifice made at Passover is a peace offering. I believe that the laws of the Passover sacrifice closely resemble the laws which apply to all of the sacrifices which took place in the ancient Temple. The Passover sacrifice was unique among all the sacrifices in one important way. The commandment to offer the Passover sacririce was given before the Temple or even the Tabernacle existed.
This means that although there was an obligation for the Priests to make an offering, the commandment was applicable without a Temple. Given that the Passover sacririce was commanded before any other sacrifices specified in the Torah were being made, it logically follows that the Israelites, even the Priests, were not familiar with the relevant rules.
As the following passage shows, the rules for other sacrifices were similar to the Passover sacrifice:. I don't believe that burning in fire rather than some other means of cooking, such as boiling, was unique to the Passover sacrifice, although many other aspects were unique.
Rather, the instructions to burn the Passover sacrifice were in line with what we would expect for any sacrifice to be offered in the Temple. Boiling any animal or fish without dressing it out and washing the meat before cooking by boiling would be a health problem. The danger of fecal matter in the boiling pot would be guaranteed.
Without dressing and cleaning the inside of the cavity only cooking on a open fire would the lamb be safe to eat. We are not told if they skinned the animal. Either skin on or off roasting over fire was the safe way to cook a undressed animal.
I have cooked many fish over a fire without cleaning out the entrails, and after fire roasting the fish on a stick over open fire you just pull off the skin and eat the meat and discard the rest. Would never boil fish without cleaning out entrails. Think about what going into your soup pot. Israel was required to eat all the meat before morning and burn the inedible parts in the morning. The night was the night of the 14th of Abib supported by Lev.
The day of preparation was also the 14th given in the same texts. Passover is a time for questions. Four come to mind immediately, but here's an important fifth: Will there be lamb at the Seder? The answer, as with so many other things in Judaism, depends on your family's traditions. Ashkenazi Jews, those whose ancestors settled along the Rhine River and in Northern France and eventually spread into Eastern Europe and Russia typically do not eat lamb at Passover.
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