Deuteronomy 16:1
Good News Translation
"Honor the LORD your God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
Observe the month of Abib by keeping the passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Contemporary English Version
People of Israel, you must celebrate Passover in the month of Abib, because one night in that month years ago, the LORD your God rescued you from Egypt.

New American Bible
Observe the month of Abib by keeping the Passover of the LORD, your God, since it was in the month of Abib that the LORD, your God, brought you out of Egypt by night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

the month

Exodus 12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.

Exodus 34:18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest out from Egypt.

Leviticus 23:5 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

Numbers 9:2-5 Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time, . . .

Numbers 28:16 And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

it was killed in the evening

Exodus 12:6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.

Christ suffered at that time of day.

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Hebrews 1:2 In these days, hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.

Exodus 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.

not only to put them in remembrance of their bitter bondage in Egypt, but also to testify out mortification to sin, and readiness to undergo afflictions for Christ

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

for in

Exodus 12:29-42 And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle. . . .

Exodus 13:4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn.

Exodus 23:15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month of new corn, when thou didst come forth out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear empty before me.

Exodus 34:18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the month of the new corn: for in the month of the spring time thou camest out from Egypt.

Context
The Feast of the Passover
1Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.2And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.…
Cross References
Luke 2:41
And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch.

John 2:13
And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 5:1
After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 6:4
Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand.

Exodus 12:2
This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year.

Exodus 12:42
This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.

Exodus 13:4
This day you go forth in the month of new corn.

Leviticus 23:5
The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,

Numbers 28:16
And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,

Deuteronomy 16:2
And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

Deuteronomy 15:23
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