And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 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.
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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, 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.
- 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.
- Exod 12:2–11This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Lev 23:5–8In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- 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:
- Num 9:3–5In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
- 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?
- Ezek 45:21–24In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- Matt 26:2Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
- Acts 12:3–4And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
- Exod 12:43–49And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
- Luke 22:7–8Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
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