Exodus 12:6
Good News Translation
Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

Contemporary English Version
Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.

New American Bible
You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.

fourteenth

Leviticus 23:5 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

Numbers 9:3 The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof.

Numbers 28:16,18 And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord, . . .

Deuteronomy 16:1-6 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. . . .

2 Chronicles 30:15 And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:21 In the first month, the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the solemnity of the pasch: seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.

the whole

2 Chronicles 30:15-18 And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites being at length sanctified offered holocausts in the house of the Lord. . . .

Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Matthew 27:20,25 But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people that they should ask Barabbas and make Jesus away. . . .

Mark 15:1,8,11,25,33,34 And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a consultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council, binding Jesus, led him away and delivered him to Pilate. . . .

Luke 23:1,18 And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate. . . .

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Acts 3:14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

in the evening.

Hebrews between the two evenings. The Jews divided the day into morning and evening: till the sun passed the meridian, all was morning or forenoon; after that, all was evening or afternoon. Their first evening began just after twelve o'clock, and continued till sunset; their second evening began at sunset, and continued till night, i.e. during the whole time of twilight; between twelve o'clock, therefore, and the termination of twilight, the passover was to be offered.

Exodus 16:12 I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 27:46-50 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? . . .

Context
The First Passover
5And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid. 6And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.7And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:14
And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.

Exodus 12:17
And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance.

Exodus 12:47
All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.

Exodus 16:1
And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16:12
I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 19:1
In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:

Leviticus 23:5
The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord.

Numbers 9:1
The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:

Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,

Numbers 9:11
In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:

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

Deuteronomy 16:4
No leaven shall be seen in all thy coasts for seven days, neither shall any of the flesh of that which was sacrificed the first day in the evening remain until morning.

Deuteronomy 16:6
But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: thou shalt immolate the phase in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at which time thou camest out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 35:1
And Josias kept a phase to the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Ezra 6:19
And the children of Israel of the captivity kept the phase, on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Exodus 12:5
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