Exodus 12:6

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.

Bible in Basic English

In The 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.

In Context

5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

7Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:18In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

Exodus 29:39One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:

Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

Numbers 9:11In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

Numbers 28:18On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

Deuteronomy 16:6But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:2-21

The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his… Read the whole commentary →

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