“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
- KJV Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
- BSB “The Israelites are to observe 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 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.
- Deut 16:1–2Observe 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.
- Lev 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- 2 Chr 35:1Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Num 28:16“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Josh 5:10The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
- Ezra 6:19The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Luke 22:7The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
- Mark 14:12On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
- Exod 12:1–20Yahweh spoke to 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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