I agree, and so did Paul, that the rules which God gave he intended to be followed. But there is no record of him giving rules on the details of how these rules should be put into practice. Did he say that the lamb and bitter herbs should be wrapped up in the matzot, the early form of sandwich which Hillel is said to have invented? I doubt it. He said that lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread were to be eaten, but, as far as the record tells us, he left it to individual or community decision whether these should eaten separately with the fingers, as a sandwich, with a knife and fork or however. Surely God doesn't care to specify such details, he leaves them to our own good sense.
Peter Kirk:I can accept your less literal version as something which may have happened, although I wonder how faithfully anything was actually passed down through the multiple upheavals and apostasies of the Judges and Divided Kingdom periods, through the time when even the written Torah was lost before being found in Josiah's time. And while I accept that Shoshanna has the right to her faith position on the very literal version, I can see no evidence, in the written Torah or anywhere else, that this actually happened.
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