"'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.
KJV
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.
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Commentary
And in the fourteenth day of the first month,.... The month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan or Abib, which, upon the Israelites coming out of Egypt, and on that account, was made the first month; otherwise Tisri or September was the first month, see
Exo 12:2
,
is the passover of the Lord; a feast in which a lamb was killed and eaten, in memory of the Lord's passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn in Egypt; see
Exo 12:6
.
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