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5In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

Leviticus 23:5

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And 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.

  • 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. …

  • And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD. …

  • Now 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?

  • Thou 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:)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-14)

Here again the feasts are called the feasts of the Lord , because he appointed them. Jeroboam’s feast, which he devised of his own heart (1 Kgs. 12:33), was an affront to God, and a reproach upon the people. These feasts were to be proclaimed in their seasons (Lev. 23:4), and the seasons God chose for them were in March, May and September (according to our present computation), not in winter, beca…

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