Deuteronomy 16:7

You shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.

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In The King James Version

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

In Context

6but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.

8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:9Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

Deuteronomy 16:2You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

2 Kings 23:23but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

John 2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

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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