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You shall keep itוְהָיָה לָכֶם לְמִשְׁמֶרֶתuntilעַדthe fourteenthאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂרdayיוֹםof thisהַזֶּהmonth,לַחֹדֶשׁandוְthe wholeכֹּלassemblyקְהַלof the communityעֲדַתof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלshall slaughterשָׁחֲטוּitאֹתוֹat twilight.בֵּין הָעַרְבָּיִם
Exodus 12:6
Study it in the app“You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.”
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With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 12:6, word by word
- You shall keep itהָיָהhaya
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appears- You shall keep itמִשְׁמֶרֶתmishmeret
keeping
Something set aside so that it is kept.
Where else “mishmeret” appears- the fourteenthאַרְבָּעָהarbaa
four
Four.
Where else “arbaa” appears- the fourteenthעָשָׂרasar
-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “asar” appears- dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- monthחֹדֶשׁchodesh
month
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appears- assemblyקְהַלkehal
assembly
The people gathered before YHWH.
Where else “kehal” appears- of the communityעֲדַתadat
community
Israel gathered as one people; or a band of people.
Where else “adat” appears- of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael
Israel
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appears- shall slaughterשָׁחֲטוּshachatu
slaughter
To kill an animal by cutting its throat, to sacrifice it or to eat.
Where else “shachatu” appears- at twilightעַרְבָּיִםarbayim
evening
Evening, when the sun goes down. Each day of Genesis 1 is counted "evening and morning"; so in Israel the day begins at sunset.
Where else “arbayim” appears
Translation note
“At twilight” is, literally, “between the two evenings.”
The context
5Your lamb shall be without defect, a male, a year old; from the sheep or from the goats you shall take it.
6 · This verse (above)
7They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.