Deuteronomy 16:2
Good News Translation
Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the LORD your God.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall offer the passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Contemporary English Version
The Passover sacrifice must be a cow, a sheep, or a goat, and you must offer it at the place where the LORD chooses to be worshiped.

New American Bible
You shall offer the Passover sacrifice from your flock and your herd to the LORD, your God, in the place the LORD will choose as the dwelling place of his name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

sacrifice

Exodus 12:5-7 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid. . . .

Numbers 28:16-19 And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord, . . .

2 Chronicles 35:7 And Josias gave to all the people that were found there in the solemnity of the phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks, and of other small cattle thirty thousand, and of oxen three thousand, all these were of the king's substance.

Matthew 26:2,17 You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified. . . .

Mark 14:12 Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

Luke 22:8,15 And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go, and prepare for us the pasch, that we may eat. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed.

in the place which

Deuteronomy 12:5,11,14,18,26 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: . . .

Deuteronomy 15:20 In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house.

Context
The Feast of the Passover
1Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. 2And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.3Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.…
Cross References
Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,

Deuteronomy 12:11
In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

Deuteronomy 16:3
Thou shalt not eat with it leavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat without leaven, the bread of affliction, because thou camest out of Egypt in fear: that thou mayst remember the day of thy coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy life.

2 Kings 23:21
And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the Phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.

Deuteronomy 16:1
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