You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you; but at the place which Yahweh 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. You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
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Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night. You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you; but at the place which Yahweh 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. You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents. Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work. You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a free will offering of your hand, which you shall give according to how Yahweh your God blesses you. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes. You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press. You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty. Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you. You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves. Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
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You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you;
but at the place which Yahweh 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.
You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
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Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
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.
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Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover-offering within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee;
but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
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.
Cross-references (19)
- 2 Chronicles 35:13 (v7) They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and…
- Deuteronomy 16:2 (vv5, 7) You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Yahweh shall choose to cause his name to…
- Deuteronomy 12:5 (v6) But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you…
- Deuteronomy 12:5-6 (v5) But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you…
- Matthew 26:20 (v6) Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
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- Hebrews 9:26 (v6) or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put…
- 1 Peter 1:19-20 (v6) but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the…
- Exodus 12:6-9 (v6) You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at…
- Exodus 12:8-9 (v7) They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. Don’t eat it raw, nor…
- Numbers 9:3 (v6) On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes…
- Numbers 9:11 (v6) In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Deuteronomy 16:6 (v7) but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at…
- 2 Kings 23:23 (v7) but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, this Passover was kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 22:14-15 (v7) I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me. My strength is dried up like a…
- John 2:13 (v7) The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- John 2:23 (v7) Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
- John 11:55 (v7) Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
- Hebrews 1:2-3 (v6) has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. His Son…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv5–6 This was chiefly accomplished, when the Temple was built.
This was chiefly accomplished, when the Temple was built.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Within any of thy gates, i. e of thy…
Within any of thy gates, i. e of thy cities, as that word is oft used, as Gen 22:17; 24:60; Deu 17:2; Rth 4:10.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of…
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,.... Or cities, as the Targum of Jonathan, so called because they usually had gates to them, in which public affairs were transacted; but in none of these, only in the city of Jerusalem, the place the Lord chose, might they kill the passover and eat it, and other passover offerings:
which the Lord thy God giveth thee; in the land of Canaan, and which land was given them of God.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Of thy gates - That is, of thy cities.
Of thy gates - That is, of thy cities.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv5, 7 Deu 16:5-6. Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within…
Deu 16:5-6. Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates — That is, of thy cities, as that word often signifies: see Gen 22:17; Gen 24:60. But at the place which the Lord shall choose — And in no other place. The reason of this is evident the passover itself was a sacrifice; hence Christ, as our passover, is said to be sacrificed for us, 1Co 5:3; and many other sacrifices, as we have just seen, were to be offered during the seven days of the feast. Now no sacrifice was accepted but from the altar that sanctified it. It was therefore necessary that they should go up to the place of the altar; for though the paschal lamb was entirely eaten by the owners in their separate apartments, yet it must be killed in the court of the tabernacle or temple, its blood sprinkled, and its inwards burned upon the altar. Besides, by confining them to the appointed place, he kept them to the appointed rule, from which they would have been apt to vary, and to introduce foolish inventions of their own, had they been permitted to offer these sacrifices within their own gates, from under the inspection of the priests. Add to this, that being appointed to attend where God had chosen to place his name, they were hereby directed to have their eye up to him in the solemnity, and the desire of their hearts toward the remembrance of his name, and were pointed to the place where the Messiah, the true passover, was to be slain. At even — at the season that thou camest out of Egypt — That is, about the time thou wast preparing to come out.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6–7 Phase, or paschal lamb, which was to be sacrificed…
Phase, or paschal lamb, which was to be sacrificed between the two evenings, during the space of about four hours, in the court before the ark. Some think that this precept was binding only in times of peace; and that when the people could not assemble in the place appointed, they might sacrifice the lamb elsewhere, which seems very probable, though no positive proof can be adduced. In the reign of Amon, when the priests could not perform their sacred functions in the temple, they removed the ark to another place: but Josias caused it to be brought back, 2 Paralipomenon xxxv. 3. (Calmet) --- As the Jews have now no temple, they cannot sacrifice the paschal lamb. (Tirinus) --- The priests were very expert, and observed an admirable order in offering such a surprising multitude of victims, (Calmet) as would be offered by every family of ten people. (Haydock) --- The blood, and perhaps the fat also, was presented on the altar of holocausts, which was very large, and the court exceedingly spacious. (Calmet) --- Which. This may not signify the precise hour, but may refer to all the time while the Hebrews were preparing for and commencing their journey. (Menochius) Ver. 1. --- Hebrew, "at the (return of the) season in which," &c.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv5–7 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of…
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates--The passover was to be observed nowhere but in the court of the tabernacle or temple, as it was not a religious feast or sacramental occasion merely, but an actual sacrifice (Exo 12:27; Exo 23:18; Exo 34:25). The blood had to be sprinkled on the altar and in the place where the true Passover was afterwards to be sacrificed for us "at even, at the going down of the sun"--literally, "between the evenings."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv5, 7 5, 6. There thou shalt sacrifice the passover —…
5, 6. There thou shalt sacrifice the passover — Moses here presents a new feature in connexion with the keeping of the passover when they shall be permanently settled as a nation in the land promised to their fathers for their possession. At its institution in Egypt there was no central sanctuary for them, and the passover was kept at their several homes. Hereafter at the one common place designated by Jehovah as the place of his choice it is to be kept.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv5, 7 5, 6. See on Deu_16:2. For at even, P,…
5, 6. See on Deu_16:2. For at even, P, Exo_12:6, employs his technical expression between the two evenings, on which see Driver’s note. Season, set time or date, i.e. hour of day.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv5, 7 Vers. 5, 6. Not in their own houses or…
Vers. 5, 6. Not in their own houses or places of abode might the Paschal lamb be slain and eaten, but only at the place, which the Lord should choose to place his Name there. On the first occasion, while the people were still in Egypt and had no sanctuary or specially holy place where Jehovah s Name was set, the Passover was eaten in their own houses; but when God should choose a place as his sanctuary, only there could the ordinance be observed.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv5, 7 You may not sacrifice the Passover
You may not sacrifice the Passover
Here "Passover" represents the animal that will be sacrificed. AT: "For the Passover you may not sacrifice the animal" (See: Metonymy)
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within any of your city gates
Here "gates" represents the cities or towns. AT: "within any of your towns" (See: Synecdoche)
at the going down of the sun
"at sunset"
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sanctuary
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