On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall 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.
- KJV The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and 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;
- 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.
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Cross-references · 6
- 2 Chr 30:2–15For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
- Num 9:3On 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.”
- Exod 12:2–14“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
- Deut 16:3You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste; that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Exod 12:43–49Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
- John 19:36For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
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