When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. The connection between Passover and the promised land is foundational: the feast is to be observed when you enter the land. The land and the feast belong together; the deliverance from Egypt and the inheritance of Canaan are the two halves of one promise. Israel will carry the Passover into the land as the annual testimony that the land was given, not earned — it was God who brought them out of Egypt and into the inheritance. Joshua 5:10–11 records Israel keeping the Passover at Gilgal on the eve of the conquest — the first act in the promised land is the covenant meal that commemorates the deliverance that made the inheritance possible. Entering the land and observing the feast are not two separate events; they are one covenantal act in two movements.

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