Exodus 12:6 “You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole…”

Exodus 12:6

You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.

Geneva Bible 1599

And yee shall keepe it vntill the fourteenth day of this moneth: then al the multitude of the Congregation of Israel shall kill it at euen.

Darby Translation

And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.

Young's Literal Translation

'And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

Bible in Basic English

Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

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Cross references

“fourteenth”

Leviticus 23:5 Numbers 28:16 Deuteronomy 16:1–6 Ezekiel 45:21 Numbers 28:18 Numbers 9:3

Leviticus 23:5 · BSB

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Numbers 28:16 · BSB

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

Deuteronomy 16:1–6 · BSB

Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Ezekiel 45:21 · BSB

On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.

Numbers 28:18 · BSB

On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

Numbers 9:3 · 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.”

“the whole”

2 Chronicles 30:15–18 Acts 4:27 Matthew 27:20 Matthew 27:25 Mark 15:1 Mark 15:8

2 Chronicles 30:15–18 · BSB

And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.

Acts 4:27 · BSB

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Matthew 27:20 · BSB

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.

Matthew 27:25 · BSB

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Mark 15:1 · BSB

Early in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin devised a plan. They bound Jesus, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate.

Mark 15:8 · BSB

So the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to keep his custom.

“in the evening”

Exodus 16:12 Matthew 27:46–50

Exodus 16:12 · BSB

“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

Matthew 27:46–50 · BSB

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Also

Exodus 12:18 Numbers 9:11 Numbers 9:1–3

Exodus 12:18 · BSB

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Numbers 9:11 · BSB

Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

Numbers 9:1–3 · BSB

In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

7They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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