Exodus 12:6

You must keep it until the fourteenth day of that month. Then the whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight.

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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 or young goat must be without blemish, a one-year-old male. You may take one of the sheep or goats.

7You must take some of the blood and put it on the two side doorposts and on the tops of the doorframes of the houses in which you will eat the meat.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:18You must eat unleavened bread from twilight of the fourteenth day in the first month of the year, until twilight of the twenty-first day of the month.

Exodus 29:39One lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer about sundown.

Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is Yahweh's Passover.

Numbers 9:11In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening, they will eat the Passover meal. They must eat the Passover lamb with bread that is made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

Numbers 28:18On the first day, there must be a holy assembly to honor Yahweh. You must not do regular work on that day.

Deuteronomy 16:6Instead, sacrifice at the place that Yahweh your God will choose as his sanctuary. There you will perform the sacrifice of the Passover in the evening at the going down of the sun, at the time of year that you came 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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