Leviticus 23:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

On the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD'S Passover.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן בְּאַרְבָּעָ֥ה עָשָׂ֛ר לַחֹ֖דֶשׁ בֵּ֣ין הָעַרְבָּ֑יִם פֶּ֖סַח לַיהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

ba-ḥōdeš hāriʾšôn bə-ʾarbāʿāh ʿāśār la-ḥōdeš bên hāʿarbāyim pesaḥ la-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ba-ḥōdeš*: preposition + article + noun, masculine singular - in the month
• *hāriʾšôn*: article + ordinal number, masculine singular - the first
• *bə-ʾarbāʿāh*: preposition + cardinal number, feminine - on the fourteenth
• *ʿāśār*: cardinal number - ten (part of compound number: fourteenth)
• *la-ḥōdeš*: preposition + article + noun, masculine singular - to/of the month
• *bên*: preposition - between
• *hāʿarbāyim*: article + noun, masculine dual - the two evenings
• *pesaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - Passover
• *la-YHWH*: preposition + divine name - to/for YHWH

Word Meanings

• *bên* *hāʿarbāyim*: between the two evenings/at twilight/during dusk
• *pesaḥ*: Passover/passing over

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah's passover.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  The xiiij. daye of the first moneth at eue is the Lordes Passeouer,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Upon ye fourtene daye of ye first moneth at euen, is the LORDES Easter.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  In the first moneth, and in the fourteenth day of the moneth at euening shalbe ye Passeouer of the Lord.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  In the fourteenth day of the first moneth at euen, is the Lordes Passouer:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, `is' the passover to Jehovah;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah's passover.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah's passover.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

• World English Bible (2000)

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 16:1-8 : 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God: for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place His name there. 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of affliction; for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with you in all your territory for seven days; nor shall any of the flesh, which you sacrificed the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. 5 You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives you: 6 But at the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His name in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose: and you shall return in the morning, and go to your tents. 8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work in it.
• Josh 5:10 : 10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
• Num 28:16-17 : 16 And on the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
• Exod 12:2-9 : 2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a household: 4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the people; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and its entrails. 10 And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. 11 And thus you shall eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; you shall keep it as a feast by an ordinance forever.
• Exod 23:15 : 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before me empty);
• Matt 26:17 : 17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where do you wish for us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?
• Mark 14:12 : 12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said to him, Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?
• Luke 22:7 : 7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be sacrificed.
• 1 Cor 5:7-8 : 7 Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• Num 9:2-7 : 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover at its appointed time. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time: according to all its rites and according to all its ceremonies, you shall keep it. 4 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. 5 And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at evening in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. 6 And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so they could not keep the Passover that day: and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day; 7 And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?
• Exod 12:18-19 : 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 Seven days shall no leaven be found in your houses: for whoever eats what is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or native in the land.
• Exod 13:3-9 : 3 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: no leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 This day you came out in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, nor shall there be leaven seen with you in all your quarters. 8 And you shall show your son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
• 2 Chr 35:18-19 : 18 There had been no Passover like that kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, this Passover was kept.