KJV King James Version
In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.
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Leviticus 23:5
In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
WEB World English Bible
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
ASV American Standard Version
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah’s passover.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is the passover to Jehovah;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 23
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein].
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Joshua 5:10And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.Deuteronomy 16:1-8Observe 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.Numbers 28:16-17And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD.Exodus 23:15Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)1 Corinthians 5:7-8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:Matthew 26:17Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?2 Chronicles 35:18-19And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.Exodus 12:2-14This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.Numbers 9:2-7Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.Exodus 12:18-19In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?Exodus 13:3-10And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this [place]: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.Luke 22:7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
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