Exodus 12:6

Keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the Israelites will slaughter the animals after sunset and before it gets dark.

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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

5Your lamb must be a year-old male without any defects, and you can take it either 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 have the meal.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:18In the first month you are to eat bread without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Exodus 29:39In the morning offer one lamb, and offer the other one in the evening before it gets dark.

Leviticus 23:5The Lord's Passover starts on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.

Numbers 9:11You are to observe it in the evening after sunset on the fourteenth day of the second month. You are to eat the lamb with the bread made without yeast, and the bitter herbs.

Numbers 28:18Hold a holy meeting on the first day of the festival. Don't do any of your normal work.

Deuteronomy 16:6The Passover sacrifice must be offered by you only at the place where the Lord your God will choose to live with you. You are to do this in the evening at sunset-the same time you left 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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