The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt. The setting note is significant: this divine instruction comes in Egypt, while Israel is still enslaved, before a single plague has been reversed, before the Exodus has begun. The Passover is instituted in the condition it is designed to remember — in bondage, in the darkness, waiting for deliverance. Hebrews 11:28 says Moses kept the Passover by faith — the keeping was an act of trust before the evidence was complete. The address to both Moses and Aaron places the Passover under the authority of both the prophetic voice (Moses) and the priestly office (Aaron), establishing from the beginning that the festival belongs to the whole covenant community and will be administered through its designated leaders.

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