Study it in the app“And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.”
And they keptוַיַּעֲשׂוּthe Passoverאֶת הַפֶּסַחin the first month,בָּרִאשׁוֹןon the fourteenthבְּאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂרdayיוֹםof the month,לַחֹדֶשׁat twilight,בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִםin the wildernessבְּמִדְבַּרof Sinai;סִינָיaccording to allכְּכֹלthatאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהhad commandedצִוָּהMoses,אֶת מֹשֶׁהsoכֵּןthe sonsבְּנֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלdid.עָשׂוּ
prepare
To prepare food; offer a sacrifice; keep a feast.
Where else “yaasu” appearsPassover
Passover (pesach): the festival that recalls the night when God "passed over" the houses of Israel and brought them out of Egypt; also the animal sacrificed that night.
Where else “pesach” appearsfirst
What comes ahead in order or in time; the first.
Where else “rishon” appearsfour
Four.
Where else “arbaa” appears-teen (ten)
Ten, in the numbers from 11 to 19 (like the "-teen" in "thirteen"); also "-teenth".
Where else “asar” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsmonth
A period of about thirty days, from one new moon to the next.
Where else “chodesh” appearsevening
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” appearswilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appearsSinai
See it on the mapWhere else “sinay” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appearsMoses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsIsrael
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” appearsSinai ?
Today: disputed; traditionally Jebel Musa, Sinai, Egypt
A mountain in the wilderness; which one it was is not known for certain, and its location is disputed.
There God spoke with Moses and gave the law to Israel (Exod 19:20; 24:16).
4So Moses spoke to the sons of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
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6But there were men who were unclean through a dead human being, and they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
