And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Parallel translations
- WEB The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
- BSB On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
- NKJV Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
- NASB While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.
- NLT While the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
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Quick answer
At Gilgal Israel kept the Passover on the fourteenth day in the plains of Jericho. They celebrated their redemption from Egypt as they began to possess the land.
Overview
This was the first Passover in the Promised Land, recalling the night God spared Israel and delivered them from slavery. Keeping it now bound the new generation to the redemption story of the exodus. The Passover ultimately points to Christ, our Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), whose death frees God's people from bondage to sin.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 12:6And 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.
- Num 9:1–5And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Ezek 12:6–16In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
- Ezek 12:3Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
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