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.
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.
- 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.
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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 5:10The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
- Heb 11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
- Heb 3:5Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
- Deut 1:3In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given him in commandment to them;
- Gen 7:5Noah did everything that Yahweh commanded him.
- Num 29:40Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exod 12:1–13Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
- Num 8:20Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Exod 39:32Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
- John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Acts 26:19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
- Gen 6:22Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Exod 39:42According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
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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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