The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- KJV And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
- NKJV ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord.
- NASB ‘The Lord’s Passover shall be on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- NLT “On the fourteenth day of the first month, you must celebrate the Lord’s Passover.
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Quick answer
The fourteenth day of the first month was the Lord's Passover, commemorating Israel's redemption from Egypt.
Overview
Passover headed the calendar of appointed feasts, recalling the night the destroyer passed over the blood-marked homes of Israel. It anchored the nation's identity in God's saving deliverance. Paul declares that 'Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed' (1 Corinthians 5:7), so this feast finds its true meaning in the cross.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 12:18In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- 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.
- Exod 12:2–11“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
- Lev 23:5–8The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- 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.
- Num 9:3–5You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
- 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?”
- Ezek 45:21–24On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- Matt 26:2“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
- Acts 12:3–4And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- Exod 12:43–49And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- Luke 22:7–8Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
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