Exodus 12:6
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6 You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
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Leviticus 23:5
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5 The Passover of the Lord[a] falls on the fourteenth day of the first month, at the evening twilight.(A)
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- 23:5–6 The Passover of the Lord…feast of Unleavened Bread: the two occasions were probably separate originally. Combined they celebrate the exodus from Egypt. Cf. Ex 12:1–20, 43–49; Nm 28:16–25.
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