It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones. The Passover lamb is to be consumed in its entirety within the household. None of its meat leaves the house; none of its bones are broken. John 19:36 quotes this regulation as fulfilled at the crucifixion: not one of his bones will be broken. The soldiers who came to break Jesus' legs for the expedited death found him already dead — the bones of the true Passover lamb were not broken, fulfilling the Passover regulation at the precise moment of his sacrifice. The detail about bone-breaking, which might seem incidental in Exodus, becomes one of the most specific typological fulfillments in the passion narrative. The Passover lamb's intact bones point across centuries to the moment when the fulfillment is visible on the cross.

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