Exodus 12:6

KJV

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

— Exodus 12:6, King James Version
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Context

This verse from Exodus Chapter 12 connects to 10 cross-references. God institutes the Passover—a lamb slaughtered at twilight, its blood on the doorposts, eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs—as an annual memorial. At midnight, God strikes every Egyptian firstborn; a great cry goes up in Egypt, and Pharaoh expels …

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Other Translations

ASV

and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.

YLT

`And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

BBE

Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

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