Exodus 12:6

'And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

Young's Literal Translation

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 be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take [it].

7and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:18'In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye do eat unleavened things until the one and twentieth day of the month, at evening;

Exodus 29:39the one lamb thou dost prepare in the morning, and the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings;

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

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

Numbers 28:18in the first day [is] an holy convocation, ye do no servile work,

Deuteronomy 16:6except at the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle — there thou dost sacrifice the passover in the evening, at the going in of the sun, the season of thy 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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