Verse 5: the Passover Feast EV 23:5{the First of the Seven Feasts of Jehovah Proper Is the Passover Feast. the Passover Lamb Is to Be Slain at Evening on the Fourteenth Day of the First Month of the Year. Its Blood Is to Be Caught in a Basin and Applied With Hyssop to the Two Doorposts and Upper Lintel of Each House. It Is to Be Roast With Fire and Without the Mitigating Effect of Water and Is to Be Eaten Along With Bitter Herbs. at Midnight, Jehovah Will Pass Through the Land of Egypt and Visit Death Upon the Firstborn of Every House Where There Is No Blood. Where There Is Blood However, He Will Pass Over That House; Death Will Have Already Been There

Looking back on that first Passover night then, all the Israelites were spared; but there was not a single Egyptian house where the life of a firstborn was not taken. That night therefore marked the deliverance of God's people from their Egyptian bondage. Accordingly, they were to remember their deliverance once every year thereafter by keeping the Passover feast.
The Passover feast typifies that stupendous event, without which there could never have been any recovery at all from the ruin sin had brought in. Had that event not taken place, the accomplishment of our over-abounding blessing, with which God's own heart was occupied, could never have been realized either. That event was, of course, the death of Christ upon Calvary's cross, by which God has been infinitely glorified with respect to the question of sin. Accordingly, a righteous foundation has been laid down, whereby God, Who is holy, might come out in blessing to sinful men. (See Ex. 12:1-13; Luke 22:1-18; 1 Cor. 5:7; 2 Cor. 5:14-21; Col. 1:19-22; and Heb. 9:8-10:22.)