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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
- Heb 3:5And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
- Deut 1:3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
- Gen 7:5And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
- Num 29:40And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
- Exod 12:1–13And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
- Num 8:20And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
- Exod 39:32Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
- John 15:14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
- Acts 26:19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
- Gen 6:22Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
- Matt 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
- Exod 39:42According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
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