Parashat 16 - “Beshalach” “When he set free or when he cast out”

Shemot/Exodus13:17 – 17:16

Blessing for the Torah:

Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-O’lam, asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim,

v’natan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim , King of the Universe,

you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.

Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)

Torah Readings:

1. 13:17 – 14:8
2. 14:9 – 14:14 (Ashkenazim); 14:9-25 (Sefardim)
3. 14:15-25 (A); 14:26 – 15:26 (S)
4. 14:26 – 15:26 (A); 15:27 – 16:10 (S)
5. 15:27 – 16:10 (A); 16:11-29 (S)
6. 16:11-36 (A); 16:30-36 (S)
7. 17:1-13
8. Maftir: 17:14-16 

Haftarah: Judges 4:4 – 5:31 (A); 5:1-31 (S)

General Overview:

 In this week's reading, Beshalach, Pharaoh pursues the Israelites into the desert. The Red Sea splits, the Israelites cross the sea while the Mitsrites’/Egyptian army is drowned. Moshe and the Yisraelites sing a special song thanking YHVH for this miracle. The Yisraelites complain about a lack of food and drink. YHVH sends Manna and quail for them to eat, and miraculously produces water from a rock. Amalek attacks the Israelites and is soundly defeated.

Aliyah Rishon 13:17-14:8

Exo 13:17  And it came to be, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that Elohim did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, though that was nearer, for Elohim said, “Lest the people regret when they see fighting, and return to Mitsrayim.”

When the time comes for us to return to the land we are not going to just pack our bags and walk out of Mitsrayim/Egypt or this present world system.

As believers we don’t like to admit that we are in bondage to anything, but if we honestly consider our present position in this world, we realize that we need to be set free from the hold that this world has over each one of us, whether we admit it or not.

Once again herein lays a very important truth for us to understand this Torah portion as well as end time events. Note that Pharoah had a legal right over the people of his country. YHVH was not going to steal His people. Pharoah eventually set them free because they had become too much trouble for him. It was Pharoahs stubborn foolishness that got him killed and he no longer had any right of ownership over the people of YHVH.

We need to relook at our eschatological understanding of the end times in the light of these truths. We are not going to return to the land of Israel until the Pharoah of this present world system also “sets us free” or “Be shalach”

NOTE WHO IS LEADING THEM! YHVH LEADS THEM OUT OF MITSRAYIM.

The Midrash Rabba states that “The tribe of Ephraim had erred and departed from Egypt 30 years before the destined time, with the result that three hundred thousand of them were slain by the Philistines... and their bones lay in heaps on the road... YHVH therefore said: If Israel behold the bones of the sons of Ephraim strewn in the road, they will return to Egypt...”

 “Lest the people regret when they see fighting, and return to Mitsrayim.”  The Hebrew word for regret comes from a root word meaning to have compassion. This verb appears in the text as a “niphal” verb and therefore conveys a passive meaning. In other words the people would feel sorry or have feelings of compassion when they saw war. Why? I believe it is possible if they took the short route they would have seen the bodies of the Ephramites strewn across the desert and would have felt very sorry for them.

The moral behind this is that when a people fight the enemy in their own strength according to their own wisdom they are bound to come to grief. Perhaps the Father wants to save a remnant by protecting them from witnessing the destruction that comes upon a people who seek to do warfare in their own strength and power.

Exo 13:18  So Elohim led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Sea of Reeds. And the children of Yisra’ĕl went up armed from the land of Mitsrayim. (“The Red Sea is called “Yam Suf” in Hebrew. It means “the Reed Sea”. The name “Red Sea” is probably a result of a translation error. In the first English translations it was written as “Reed Sea”, but it seems as though those who used that English translation of the Bible when making a new translation, mistook the word “reed” for “red”. The Reed Sea is not red at all. When one is there, everything looks quite blue, just like all the other seas on the earth. The Reed Sea is the name of the whole sea, including the inlets of Suez and Aqabah”).

Maybe their “arms” were not carnal weapons of warfare, but the promises of YHVH and His Torah.

“armed” 2571 “Chamushim” this is the only place this word is used in the Tenach and its meaning is uncertain.

Chamushim can mean "armed"... Another interpretation: one in five (chamesh) among the children of Israel came out of Egypt; four-fifths died during the three days of darkness [because they did not want to leave Egypt].(Rashi)

Rabbi Joshua interpreted it thus: fivefold they came out of Egypt, for five times their number in converts were gathered into the people of Israel upon their departure from Egypt. (Midrash Tanchuma)

Midrash Rabbah – “This is comparable to a king who had a son to whom he wished to bequeath an inheritance, but he argued: "If I give it to him now that he is small, he will not know how to take care of it. I will therefore wait until my son studies the writings and comprehends the value [of the property], then I will bequeath it unto him." This is what YHVH said: I shall first give them the Torah, and then bring them into the Land.”

Exo 13:19  And Mosheh took the bones of Yosĕph with him, for he certainly made the children of Yisra’ĕl swear, saying, “Elohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring my bones from here with you.”

The Hebrew word for "bone" (etzem) also means "essence." This verse can therefore be understood to mean that Moshe took Yosef's very essence with him, and this served as inspirational guidance for them as they crossed the desert. Yosef represents so much of who the Messiah is and so in these last days we too can expect a Messianic essence in all our preparation in returning to the land.

1Co 10:1  For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

1Co 10:2  and all were immersed into Mosheh in the cloud and in the sea,

1Co 10:3  and all ate the same spiritual food,

1Co 10:4  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed, and the Rock was Messiah.  (Shaul/Paul quotes the midrash rabba)

      Exo 13:20  And they departed from Sukkoth and camped in Ětham at the edge of the wilderness.

Note they leave out detail recorded in Bemidbar/Numbers chapter 33.  Num 33:5 Then the children of Yisra’ĕl departed from Ra’meses and camped at Sukkoth.

I believe that the Torah wants us to focus more on the events that took place at the various locations. They carry a certain prophetic significance for an end time generation that will follow a similar pattern of redemption and return.  Later on in Bamidbar/Numbers 33 we will consider more detail of the 42 places or stages of the wilderness journey.

 Ramases – “child of the sun” .  We will leave Mitsrayim because we no longer desire to submit ourselves to any form of sun worship what so ever .

First stop – Sukkot/Succoth. (Should remind us of our annual camp at Chapmans Peak – or wherever the readers of this Blog were camping)

1. Sukkot or temporary shelters – Tells us that for 42 months(Book of Revelation) we are going to be pilgrims and sojourners in the truest sense of the word wandering through the wilderness waiting for our Messiah to return and establish his kingdom on earth and in Yerushalyaim -  looking for a city  with foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim. - Heb 11:10 
2. The second stop was “Etham” which means contemplation or plowshare.

Luk 9:62  But יהושע said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of Elohim.

Exo 13:21  And יהוה went before them by day in a column of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a column of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.

Exo 13:22  The column of cloud did not cease by day, nor the column of fire by night, before the people.

Note once again Who it is who is leading them. It is the presence of YHVH. Moshe was their leader because he more than any other person was willing to lay down his life and obey YHVH no matter what the consequences.

This should once again remind us of our Messiah who only did what he was told by YHVH.

Yochanan/Joh 8:28  So יהושע said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Aḏam, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do none at all of Myself, but as My Father taught Me, these words I speak.

Joh 8:29  “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.”

This Hebrew expression “lift up” means that when we lift up something towards heaven we are acknowledging this lifted up gift HAS COME FROM THE FATHER AND CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. In the case of Yahshua it also meant that the “lifting up” or impaling on an execution stake would also be the will of YHVH.

Exo 14:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Exo 14:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they turn and camp before Pi Haḥiroth, between Miḡdol and the sea, opposite Ba’al Tsephon – camp before it by the sea. (“Al hayam” means ‘on the sea’)

‘Pi Hachiroth’ -  or mouth of freedom or freedom valley. This is possibly where the slaves were brought to be set free. For the Hebrews freedom only comes when we take on our shoulders the yoke of Torah. YHVH Himself will open up the Reed Sea or do anything else for our freedom if this is what is required.

Now, the evil inclination is called the ‘tzephoni’ - the hidden one, like it says (Yoel 2,20): “And the hidden one (northerner) I will distance from you”, because it is concealed and hidden in the chambers of a person’s heart, as Chazal have said. This is what the posuk (verse) is saying “between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal Tzephon - in a place of idol worship, and before the concealed evil inclination. In front of it you shall be, and you will subdue your inclination. And therefore “opposite this”, in return for this, “you shall rest on the sea”, you shall rest on dry land within the sea –

It is here before the great deliverance of the sea that opens up for bnei Yisrael  (children of Yisrael) that YHVH wants to deal with our evil inclination in a decisive manner. It was because bnei Yisrael failed to be convinced of YHVH’s ability to deliver them that they were so easily controlled by their evil inclination.

Exo 14:3  “For Pharaoh shall say of the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has closed them in.’

Exo 14:4  “And I shall harden the heart of Pharaoh, and he shall pursue them. But I am to be esteemed through Pharaoh and over all his army, and the Mitsrites shall know that I am יהוה.” And they did so.

Exo 14:5  And it was reported to the sovereign of Mitsrayim that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people. And they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Yisra’ĕl go from serving us?”

Exo 14:6  So he made his chariot ready and took his people with him. (Why is Pharoah still alive - was he not a firstborn??? And why is he preparing his own chariot, this is not what kings did)

Exo 14:7  And he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Mitsrayim with officers over all of them.

Exo 14:8  And יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and he pursued the children of Yisra’ĕl, but the children of Yisra’ĕl went out defiantly.

When we are ultimately set free, we too will not take the shortcut back to the land. Before we possess our inheritance we will be tested and our obedience to the detail of this Torah instruction may greatly assist us in possessing our inheritance.

We will not take another 40 years through a wilderness, but maybe the 42 months spoken of in the book of Revelation.

Rev 12:1  And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clad with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. (12 tribes Israel – Gen 37:9 Yosef’s dreams)

Rev 12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. (42 months)

Rev 12:14  And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

Rev 12:15  And out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to cause her to be swept away by the river.

Rev 12:16  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

Rev 12:17  And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah.

The miracle of the earth opening its mouth can be compared to the Reed sea opening up for the Israelites to cross over.

Parashat 15-“Bo”- “come or enter”

Shemot/Exodus 10:1-13:16

There is a chilling phrase in our Haftarah this week that should cause us all to tremble before YHVH. The phrase “ he has let the appointed time pass by.”

Let us not become complacent and just assume that all is well with our beings, our souls. It will become more and more apparent in these last days that many who have called themselves believers have let the appointed times pass by. The danger of losing such opportunities is that you may never ever have them again.

Yirmeyahu/Jer 46:17  “There they cried, ‘Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim, is but a noise. He has let the appointed time pass by!’

Jer 46:18  “As I live,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה of hosts, “For as Taḇor is among the mountains, and as Karmel by the sea, he shall come.

“He shall come.” Who is “he” that comes from Tabor and Karmel? Was not our Messiah transformed on Mount Tabor where he met with Moshe and Eliyahu? Was it not Eliyahu who reckoned with the prophets of Baal on mount Karmel?  (Mat17:1-3 and 1Kings 18)

When Messiah comes again at the appointed time, he shall come to bring judgment on earth and redemption to those who have prepared for this appointed time. There are many who believe that Messiah will return during the fall feasts (Moadim/Appointed Times) of the Hebrew year, between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur. Will we be honouring and preparing ourselves for his coming during these Appointed Times?

Hence the title of our parashah, “Bo” YHVH calls us to come at the appointed times He has given us.

Pharoah will forever serve as one who despised and rejected YHVH’s appointed times.

Blessing for the Torah:

Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-O’lam, asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim,

v’natan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim , King of the Universe,

you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah.

Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)

Torah Readings:

1. 10:1-11
2. 10:12-23
3. 10:24 – 11:3
4. 11:4 – 12:20
5. 12:21-28
6. 12:29-51
7. 13:1-13
8. Maftir: 13:14-16

Haftarah: Jeremiah 46:13-28

Aliyah Rishon 10:1-11

Shemot/Exo 10:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I show these signs of Mine before him,

Exo 10:2  and that you relate in the hearing of your son and your son’s son what I have done in Mitsrayim, and My signs which I have done among them. And you shall know that I am יהוה.”

There is a key word in vs 2 – “done” or the Hebrew “hitalalti” that helps us understand the essence of this Torah portion. “Hitalalti” is a hitpael verb, Strongs number 5953. The root “alal” means to act severely or make a fool of someone. This reflexive verb points to YHVH as the first cause of such an action.

In other words Pharoah has passed the point of no return, he has let his appointed time pass him by and now YHVH is going to make a mockery of him and Pharoah will no longer have any control over what happens to him and his people.

The opening verse states that Moshe must “go into Pharoah” – “Bo el Paro.”  Moshe under the instruction of YHVH is now in full control over Pharoah and Mitsrayim/Egypt.

This scenario will be repeated again in the last days. Many believe that Moshe and Eliyahu will be the two end time messengers who under YHVH’s instruction bring terrible plagues and curses upon the earth.

Speaking of these two witnesses the book of Revelation says in Rev 11:6  “These possess authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they wish”.

In other words these witnesses will also make a mockery of everything and everyone who opposes the Torah and the prophets of YHVH. (See also Malachi chp 4)

Exo 10:3  And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of the Heḇrews, ‘Till when shall you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me.

Exo 10:4  ‘Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, see, tomorrow I am bringing locusts within your borders.

Exo 10:5  ‘And they shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one is able to see the land. And they shall eat the rest of what has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.

Exo 10:6  ‘And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exo 10:7  And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “Till when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve יהוה their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?”

Exo 10:8  And Mosheh and Aharon were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve יהוה your Elohim. Who are the ones that are going?”

Exo 10:9  And Mosheh said, “We are going with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we are going, for we have a festival to יהוה.”

Exo 10:10  And he said to them, “Let יהוה be with you as I let you and your little ones go! Watch, for evil is before your face!

Exo 10:11  “Not so! You men go now, and serve יהוה, for that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from the presence of Pharaoh.

“Pharaoh was willing to let the menfolk go, as long as the children remain behind; for as long as the younger generation remains "in Mitsrayim/Egypt," there would be no future for the people of Yisrael.

The "Pharaohs" of our day have the same attitude. If the older folk wish to cling to Jewish tradition, that is perfectly acceptable; but the youth should be raised in "the spirit of the times" (Maayanah Shel Torah)

We must also consider that the Yisraelites were in a sense property of Pharoah because they had sold themselves to him as slaves. This fact resonates with our present day condition that we too have sold ourselves to a world system that is in opposition to YHVH’s Kingdom and has also enslaved us.

Aliyah Sheni 10:12-23

Shemot/Exo 10:12  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Mitsrayim for the locusts to come upon the land of Mitsrayim, and eat every plant of the land – all that the hail has left.”

This was a total devastation of Mitsrayim’s/Egypt’s agriculture.

Exo 10:13  And Mosheh stretched out his rod over the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts.

Exo 10:14  And the locusts went up over all the land of Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them.

Exo 10:15  And they covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and no greenness was left on the trees or on the plants of the field, in all the land of Mitsrayim.

Exo 10:16  Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon in haste, and said, “I have sinned against יהוה your Elohim and against you.

Exo 10:17  “And now, please forgive my sin only this once, and pray to יהוה your Elohim, that He would only turn away this death from me.”

Note Pharoah is repenting but his repentance is not genuine as it does not bring about a change in heart.

Heb 12:17  For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.

Those who have given themselves over to the Esau spirit and have sold their birthright – the Torah – for their vain traditions will not find a place of repentance even though they beg for it.

Exo 10:18  And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to יהוה.

Exo 10:19  And יהוה turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left within all the border of Mitsrayim.

Exo 10:20  However, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go.

Exo 10:21  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and let there be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even a darkness which is felt.”

Exo 10:22  And Mosheh stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Mitsrayim for three days.

Exo 10:23  They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, while all the children of Yisra’ĕl had light in their dwellings.

Rev 16:10  And the fifth messenger poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his reign became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues from pain.

Rev 16:11  And they blasphemed the Elohim of the heaven for their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their works.

This darkness and the end time plague of darkness speak of a complete and total separation from YHVH and His Kingdom.

It is a sobering thought that the five foolish virgins spoken of by our Master in Matthew 25 did not have a second chance to be part of his bride.

Mat 25:11  “And later the other maidens also came, saying, ‘Master, Master, open up for us!’

Mat 25:12  “But he answering, said, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

The darkness was also a judgement on the sun god “Ra” (“Zeus” etc in other cultures)This too should cause us to tremble as we still clearly see the effects of sun worship in our day, amongst those who call themselves believers. (Sunday Worship and the keeping of pagan feasts – mixture of the worship of the true Elohim with the worship of paganism)

Aliyah Shlishi 10:24-11:3

Shemot/Exo 10:24  And Pharaoh called to Mosheh and said, “Go, serve יהוה, only leave your flocks and your herds behind. Let your little ones go with you too.”

Exo 10:25  But Mosheh said, “You yourself are to provide us with slaughterings and burnt offerings, to prepare for יהוה our Elohim.

Exo 10:26  “And our livestock are to go with us too, not a hoof is to be left behind, for we have to take some of them to serve יהוה our Elohim, and we ourselves do not know with what we are to serve יהוה until we come there.”

Exo 10:27  However, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not let them go.

Exo 10:28  And Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Watch yourself and see my face no more, for in the day you see my face you die!”

Exo 10:29  And Mosheh said, “You have spoken rightly – never again do I see your face!”

Exo 11:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “I am bringing yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. After that he is going to let you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall drive you out from here altogether.

Exo 11:2  “Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbour and every woman from her neighbour, objects of silver and objects of gold.”

Exo 11:3  And יהוה gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites. And the man Mosheh was very great in the land of Mitsrayim, in the eyes of Pharaoh’s servants and in the eyes of the people.

Aliyah Reviee 11:4-12:20

Shemot/Exo 11:4  And Mosheh said, “Thus said יהוה, ‘About midnight I am going out into the midst of Mitsrayim,

Exo 11:5  and all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the first-born of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the first-born of cattle.

Exo 11:6  ‘And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Mitsrayim, such as has never been or ever be again.

Exo 11:7  ‘But against any of the children of Yisra’ĕl no dog shall move its tongue, against man or against beast, so that you know that יהוה makes distinction between Mitsrayim and Yisra’ĕl.’

Exo 11:8  “And all these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people at your feet!’ And after that I shall go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in great displeasure.

Exo 11:9  But יהוה said to Mosheh, “Pharaoh is not going to listen to you, in order to multiply My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim.”

Exo 11:10  And Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharaoh, however, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go out of his land.

Exo 12:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying,

Exo 12:2  “This month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the year for you.

Pesach intructions.

(See parable of the bus stops at the conclusion of this parashah)

Exo 12:3  “Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.

Exo 12:4  ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s need you make your count for the lamb.

Exo 12:5  ‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Exo 12:6  ‘And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl shall kill it between the evenings.

Exo 12:7  ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

Exo 12:8  ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Exo 12:9  ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts.