and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Parallel translations
- WEB They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- KJV And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
- NKJV And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- NASB And they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.
- NLT in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the fourteenth day of the month. And they celebrated the festival there, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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Quick answer
Israel kept the Passover at the right time and in the right way, doing all that God commanded. Their obedience is highlighted as exemplary.
Overview
The people obeyed exactly, observing the feast at Sinai precisely as commanded. This faithful celebration of redemption looks back to the Exodus and forward to the greater deliverance in Christ, in whom the true Passover meal finds its fulfillment.
Cross-references & the web
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- Josh 5:10On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
- Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Heb 3:5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
- Deut 1:3In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
- Gen 7:5And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
- Num 29:40So Moses spoke all this to the Israelites just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Exod 12:1–13Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
- Num 8:20So Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel did with the Levites everything that the LORD had commanded Moses they should do.
- Deut 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- Exod 39:32So all the work for the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Acts 26:19So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
- Gen 6:22So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Exod 39:42The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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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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