“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
Parallel translations
- KJV And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
- BSB The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- 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.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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
Cross-references · 12
- Exod 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Exod 12:2–11“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Lev 23:5–8In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- Num 9:3–5On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season — according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.”
- Matt 26:17Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
- Ezek 45:21–24In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- Matt 26:2“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
- Acts 12:3–4When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
- Exod 12:43–49Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
- Luke 22:7–8The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
How Numbers 28:16 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.