In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- BSB The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- 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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Quick answer
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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Cross-references · 13
- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
- Josh 5:10And 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.
- Exod 12:2–14This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Num 28:16–17And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
- Exod 13:3–10And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
- Exod 12:18–19In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
- Exod 23:15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
- 2 Chr 35:18–19And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
- Matt 26:17Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
- Num 9:2–7Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
- Luke 22:7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
- Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
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