Exodus 12:6

And it has become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel has slaughtered it between the evenings;

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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

5A lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let [it] be to you; you take [it] from the sheep or from the goats.

7and they have taken of the blood, and have put [it] on the two doorposts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:18In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you eat unleavened things until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening;

Exodus 29:39you prepare the first lamb in the morning, and you prepare the second lamb between the evenings;

Leviticus 23:5in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, [is] the Passover to YHWH;

Numbers 9:11they prepare it in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings; they eat it with unleavened and bitter things;

Numbers 28:18In the first day [is] a holy convocation; you do no servile work;

Deuteronomy 16:6except 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;

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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