Exodus 12:6

Exodus 12:6

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

a. NLT: “Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at twilight.

b. NIV: Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.

c. YLT: 'And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

d. Amplified Bible Classic: And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall [each] kill [his] lamb in the evening.

e. Septuagint: And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it toward evening. 

f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: It shall be yours for examination until the fourteenth day of this month; the entire congregation of the assembly of Israel shall slaughter it in the afternoon.

1. And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month…”

a. And ye shall keep [4931 * mishmereth] [Strong: fem. of 4929; watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concr.) the sentry, the post; obj. preservation, or (concr.) safe; fig. observance, i.e. (abstr.) duty or (obj.) a usage or party:--charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.]

b. four [702 * 'arba`; masculine oarbaah] [Strong: from 7251; four:--four.]

1). This Hebrew word and the one below combine to make the word “fourteenth”.

c. ten [6240 * `asar] [Strong: for 6235; ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth:--(eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-)teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).]

1). This Hebrew word and the one above combine to make the word “fourteenth”.

d. day [3117 * yowm] [Strong: from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.]

e. of the same month [2320 * chodesh] [Strong: from 2318; the new moon; by implication, a month:--month(-ly), new moon.]

2. “…and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.”

a. and the whole [3606 *  kol] [Strong: (Aramaic) corresponding to 3605:--all, any, + (forasmuch) as, + be-(for this) cause, every, + no (manner, -ne), + there (where)-fore, + though, what (where, who)-soever, (the) whole.]

b. assembly [6951 * qahal] [Strong: from 6950; assemblage (usually concretely):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude.]

c. of the congregation [5712 * `edah] [Strong: feminine of 5707 in the original sense of fixture; a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd):--assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm.]

d. of Israel [3478 *  Yisra'el] [Strong: from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.]

e. shall kill it [7819 * shachat] [Strong: a primitive root; to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre):--kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.]

f. in [996 * beyn] [Strong: (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from 995; a distinction; but used only as a prep, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or:--among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), X in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.]

g. the evening [6153 * `ereb] [Strong: from 6150; dusk:--+ day, even(-ing, tide), night.]

1). The Jewish day begins in the evening.

a). Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

2). Jesus died at 3 PM and was taken down from the cross and buried before the evening because of the preparation of a Sabbath.

a). Luke 23:51-56  (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

23:52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.