Exodus 12:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

And yee shall keepe it vntill the fourteenth day of this moneth: then al the multitude of the Congregation of Israel shall kill it at euen.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֤ה לָכֶם֙ לְמִשְׁמֶ֔רֶת עַ֣ד אַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר י֖וֹם לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֑ה וְשָׁחֲט֣וּ אֹת֗וֹ כֹּ֛ל קְהַ֥ל עֲדַֽת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בֵּ֥ין הָעַרְבָּֽיִם׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyâ lākem lə-mišmeret ʿad ʾarbāʿâ ʿāśār yôm la-ḥōdeš ha-zeh wə-šāḥăṭû ʾōtô kōl qəhal ʿădat-Yiśrāʾēl bên hā-ʿarbāyim

Grammar Details

• *wə-hāyâ*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - and it shall be
• *lākem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - for you (plural)
• *lə-mišmeret*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - for safekeeping/custody
• *ʿad*: preposition - until
• *ʾarbāʿâ*: number, feminine - four
• *ʿāśār*: number, masculine - ten (forms fourteenth with previous word)
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular - day
• *la-ḥōdeš*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the month
• *ha-zeh*: definite article + demonstrative adjective, masculine singular - this
• *wə-šāḥăṭû*: conjunction + qal perfect 3rd person plural - and they shall slaughter
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - him/it
• *kōl*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of/whole of
• *qəhal*: noun, masculine singular construct - assembly of
• *ʿădat*: noun, feminine singular construct - congregation of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *bên*: preposition - between
• *hā-ʿarbāyim*: definite article + noun, masculine dual - the two evenings

Word Meanings

• *mišmeret*: safekeeping/guard/watch/custody
• *qəhal*: assembly/congregation/gathering
• *ʿădat*: congregation/assembly/community
• *bên hā-ʿarbāyim*: between the two evenings/at twilight/at dusk

Referenced Verses

• Lev 23:5 : 5 In the first moneth, and in the fourteenth day of the moneth at euening shalbe ye Passeouer of the Lord.
• Exod 16:12 : 12 I haue heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: tell them therefore, & say, At euen ye shal eate flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord your God)
• Num 28:16 : 16 Also the fourtenth day of the first moneth is the Passeouer of the Lord.
• 2 Chr 30:15-18 : 15 Afterwarde they slewe the Passeouer the fourteenth day of the seconde moneth: and the Priestes and Leuites were ashamed, and sanctified themselues, and brought the burnt offrings into the house of the Lord. 16 And they stoode in their place after their maner, according to the Lawe of Moses the man of God: and the Priestes sprinkled the blood, receiued of the handes of the Leuites. 17 Because there were many in the Congregation that were not sanctified, therefore the Leuites had the charge of the killing of ye Passeouer for all that were not cleane, to sanctifie it to the Lord. 18 For a multitude of the people, euen a multitude of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not cleansed themselues, yet did eate the Passeouer, but not as it was written: wherefore Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord be mercifull toward him,
• Num 9:11 : 11 In the fourtenth day of the second moneth at euen they shall keepe it: with vnleauened bread and sowre herbes shall they eate it.
• Acts 4:27 : 27 For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together,
• Num 28:18 : 18 In the first day shalbe an holy conuocation, ye shall do no seruile worke therein.
• Deut 16:1-6 : 1 Thou shalt keepe the moneth of Abib, and thou shalt celebrate the Passeouer vnto the Lord thy God: for in the moneth of Abib ye Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore offer the Passeouer vnto the Lord thy God, of sheepe and bullockes in the place where the Lord shall chose to cause his Name to dwell. 3 Thou shalt eate no leauened bread with it: but seuen dayes shalt thou eate vnleauened bread therewith, euen the bread of tribulation: for thou camest out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou maist remember ye day whe thou camest out of the land of Egypt, all the dayes of thy life. 4 And there shalbe no leauen seene with thee in all thy coastes seuen dayes long: neither shall there remaine the night any of the flesh vntil the morning which thou offeredst ye first day at euen. 5 Thou maist not offer ye Passeouer within any of thy gates, which ye Lord thy God giueth thee: 6 But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his Name, there thou shalt offer the Passeouer at euen, about the going downe of the sunne, in the season that thou camest out of Egypt.
• Exod 12:18 : 18 In the first moneth and the fourteenth day of the moneth at euen, yee shall eate vnleauened bread vnto the one and twentieth day of the moneth at euen.
• Num 9:1-3 : 1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernes of Sinai, in the first moneth of the second yeere, after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 The children of Israel shall also celebrate the Passeouer at ye time appointed thereunto. 3 In the fourtenth day of this moneth at euen, ye shall keepe it in his due season: according to all the ordinances of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keepe it.
• Ezek 45:21 : 21 In the first moneth in the foureteenth day of the moneth, ye shal haue the Passeouer, a feast of seuen dayes, & ye shal eate vnleauened bread.
• Matt 27:20 : 20 But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.
• Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and saide, His bloud be on vs, and on our children.
• Matt 27:46-50 : 46 And about ye ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loud voyce, saying, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani? Yt is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 47 And some of them that stoode there, when they heard it, said, This man calleth Elias. 48 And straightway one of them ran, & tooke a spondge, and filled it with vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke. 49 Other said, Let be: let vs see, if Elias wil come and saue him. 50 Then Iesus cryed againe with a loude voyce, and yeelded vp the ghost.
• Mark 15:1 : 1 And anon in the dawning, the hie Priestes helde a Councill with the Elders, and the Scribes, and the whole Council, and bound Iesus, and led him away, and deliuered him to Pilate.
• Mark 15:8 : 8 And the people cried aloude, and began to desire that he woulde doe as he had euer done vnto them.
• Mark 15:11 : 11 But the high Priestes had moued the people to desire that he would rather deliuer Barabbas vnto them.
• Mark 15:25 : 25 And it was the third houre, when they crucified him.
• Mark 15:33-34 : 33 Nowe when the sixt houre was come, darkenesse arose ouer all the land vntill the ninth houre. 34 And at the ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lamma-sabachthani? which is by interpretation, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Luke 23:1 : 1 Then the whole multitude of them arose, and led him vnto Pilate.
• Luke 23:18 : 18 Then all ye multitude cried at once, saying, Away with him, and deliuer vnto vs Barabbas:
• Acts 2:23 : 23 Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.
• Acts 3:14 : 14 But ye denied the Holy one and the Iust, and desired a murtherer to be giuen you,
• Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheepe haue gone astraye: wee haue turned euery one to his owne way, and the Lord hath layed vpon him the iniquitie of vs all.