Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
- BSB “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
- NKJV “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
- NASB “Now the sons of Israel are to celebrate the Passover at its appointed time.
- NLT “Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time,
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Quick answer
God commands Israel to keep the Passover at its appointed time. The redemptive feast was to be observed faithfully on schedule.
Overview
The Passover was not optional but a fixed, appointed observance commemorating God's deliverance. Its regular keeping rooted each generation in the memory of redemption, foreshadowing the once-for-all redemption accomplished by Jesus, the Lamb of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 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:
- Deut 16:1–2Observe 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.
- Lev 23:5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- 2 Chr 35:1Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Num 28:16And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
- Josh 5:10And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
- Ezra 6:19And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Luke 22:7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
- Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
- Exod 12:1–20And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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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.
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