Bible Strands
Numbers 28:16
The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God instructs Israel through Moses in the wilderness regarding the prescribed monthly and annual sacrificial calendar.
The words — פֶּסַח (Pe.sach) denotes the designated passover offering, while הָ/רִאשׁ֗וֹן (ha./ri.Shon) specifies the first month of the liturgical year.
The thread — This date anchors the annual feast cycle detailed in Exodus 12:2 and Exodus 12:18, and is later reaffirmed in Deuteronomy 16:1 as the month of Abib.
Why it lands — The text commands precise observance of the fourteenth day of the first month as a fixed appointment to Yahweh.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.
Cross-references
- Exodus 12:18 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.
- Deuteronomy 16:1 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.
- Exodus 12:2 “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
- Leviticus 23:5 The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Numbers 9:3 You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- Ezekiel 45:21 On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- Matthew 26:2 “You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
- Matthew 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?”