Exodus 12:6

And it will be with you for mishmeret (examination, checking for blemishes) up until the fourteenth day of the same month; and kol Kehal Adat Yisroel shall slaughter (shachat) it in the afternoon [before dark].

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 seh (lamb) + 12:5 See Isa 53:7 shall be tamim (without blemish), a zachar (male) within its first year; ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats;

7And they shall take of the dahm, and strike it upon the two mezuzot (doorposts) and on the mashkof (lintel) of the batim (houses), wherein they shall eat it.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at erev, ye shall eat matzot, until the one and twentieth day of the month at erev.

Exodus 29:39The one lamb thou shalt offer in the boker; and the other lamb thou shalt offer in the afternoon;

Leviticus 23:5In the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is Hashemʼs Pesach.

Numbers 9:11The fourteenth day of the second month + 9:11 Iyyar at twilight they shall observe it, and eat it with matzot and merorim (bitter herbs).

Numbers 28:18In the yom harishon shall be a mikra kodesh (holy convocation); ye shall do no manner of melekhet avodah therein;

Deuteronomy 16:6But at the place which Hashem Eloheicha shall choose to place Shmo in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Pesach at erev, at the going down of the shemesh, at the mo'ed (appointed time) that thou camest forth out of Mitzrayim.

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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