Leviticus 23:5
The Lord's Passover starts on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 12:11This is how you are to eat the meal. You should be dressed ready to travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. You are to eat quickly—it is the Lord's Passover.
Exodus 13:3So Moses told the people, “Remember this is the day you left Egypt, the land of your slavery, for the Lord led you out of it by his amazing power. (Nothing with yeast in it shall be eaten.)
Numbers 9:2“The Israelites are to keep the Passover at its designated time.
Deuteronomy 16:1You are to observe the month of Abib and to celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because it was in the month of Abib that the Lord your God led you out of Egypt by night.
2 Chronicles 35:18No Passover like this had been held in Israel since the time of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had ever held a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all of Judah, the Israelites who were there, and the people of Jerusalem.
Mark 14:12On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the time when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare the Passover meal for you?”
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:5-15
4 These are the feasts of the Lord , even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord 's passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord : seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation:… Read the whole commentary →