Deuteronomy 16:6

except at the place which your God YHWH chooses to cause His Name to dwell—there you sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going in of the sun, the season of your coming out of Egypt;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

In Context

5You are not able to sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which your God YHWH is giving to you,

7and you have cooked and eaten in the place on which your God YHWH fixes, and have turned in the morning and gone to your tents;

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Cross References

Numbers 9:3in the fourteenth day of this month between the evenings you prepare it in its appointed time; you prepare it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”

Deuteronomy 12:5rather—that you seek after the place which your God YHWH chooses out of all your tribes to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and you have entered there,

Hebrews 1:2in these last days speaks to us in [His] Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He also made the ages;

1 Peter 1:19but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ’s—

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:2-18

Yearly Release. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of… Read the whole commentary →

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