Leviticus 23:5
3 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
4 These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6 On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- KJV
- In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- WEB
- In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD’s Passover.
- ASV
- In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah`s passover.
- DARBY
- In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah.
- BLB
- In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, [is] the passover to YHWH.
- ÅB
- I den første måned, på den fjortende dag i måneden, mellom de to aftenstunder, er det påske for Herren.
- OTB
- På den fjortende dagen i den første måneden ved skumring, holdes Herrens påske.
- B1930
- I den første måned, på den fjortende dag i måneden, mellem de to aftenstunder, er det påske for Herren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 16:1–8
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Read in contextJoshua 5:10
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
Read in contextExodus 12:2–14
“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
Read in contextExodus 13:3–10
So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
Read in contextExodus 12:18–19
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Read in contextNumbers 28:16–17
The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Read in context2 Chronicles 35:18–19
No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
Read in contextMatthew 26:17
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
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