Neville Goddard on Exodus 12:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 12 in context

Scripture Focus

3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

Exodus 12:3-6

Biblical Context

Exodus 12:3-6 instructs Israelites to select a spotless lamb on the tenth day, according to household size. They keep it until the evening of the fourteenth and then sacrifice it as a sign of obedience and covenant.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the language of Exodus you are not recounting a history, but entering a state of consciousness. The lamb is a pure, unblemished possibility you choose to entertain in your mind. The assembly and the household symbolize the allied parts of your attention gathered to witness a new belief. By selecting the lamb on the tenth day you commit to a definite, present state; if your inner household is small, you invite your neighbor—the other aspects of self—so that all appetites share in the feast of faith. The blemish requirement is your insistence on integrity—no mixing with doubt or fear. Keeping it until the fourteenth day is the daily tending of that state in imagination, until it ripens into actuality. When evening comes and the old belief is set aside, you discover that God—the I AM—dwells within as your present reality. This is not history but a psychological drama in which limitation is dissolved through imaginative keeping and a faithful assumption of the new state.

Practice This Now

Sit in quiet, and assume the unblemished lamb state as your present I AM. Nurture that feeling daily from the tenth to the fourteenth day, until it manifests as your new way of being.