The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- BSB Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
- NKJV On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- NASB In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall celebrate it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- NLT They must offer the Passover sacrifice one month later, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They must eat the Passover lamb at that time with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast.
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Quick answer
The second-chance Passover was kept on the same day of the second month, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The full meaning of the feast was preserved.
Overview
Even the delayed observance had to follow the original pattern, including the bread and bitter herbs that recalled affliction and haste in Egypt. The unchanged elements ensured that the deferred celebration carried the same redemptive significance, pointing to the unchanging truth of God's deliverance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 2 Chr 30:2–15For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
- Num 9:3In 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.
- Exod 12:2–14This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Deut 16:3Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
- Exod 12:43–49And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
- John 19:36For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
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