The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- KJV In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- NKJV On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.
- NASB In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.
- NLT “The Lord’s Passover begins at sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, is Yahweh's Passover.
Overview
Passover commemorated Israel's deliverance from Egypt, when the blood of the lamb spared the firstborn (Exodus 12). It stood at the head of the festal year as the memorial of redemption. Paul declares its fulfillment plainly: 'Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed' (1 Corinthians 5:7).
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- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Josh 5:10On 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.
- Exod 12:2–14“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
- Num 28:16–17The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Exod 13:3–10So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
- Exod 12:18–19In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- Exod 23:15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- 2 Chr 35:18–19No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Matt 26:17On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- Num 9:2–7“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
- Luke 22:7Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- Mark 14:12On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
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