On 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.”
Parallel translations
- KJV In 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.
- BSB You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
- NKJV On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”
- NASB On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall celebrate it at its appointed time; you shall celebrate it in accordance with all its statutes and all its ordinances.”
- NLT at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. Be sure to follow all my decrees and regulations concerning this celebration.”
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Quick answer
The Passover was to be kept on the fourteenth day at evening, exactly according to all its statutes. God required precise obedience in commemorating redemption.
Overview
God specifies the day, the time, and the manner of the Passover, insisting it be done according to all its ordinances. Such careful prescription guarded the meaning of the feast and pictured the exactness of God's redemptive plan, fulfilled in Christ who died at Passover time.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 12:6–11and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- 2 Chr 30:15Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
- 2 Chr 30:2For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
- Heb 9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
- Num 9:11–12In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Lev 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
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