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Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
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A Night of Deliverance
Commentators explain that the command to observe the Passover "by night" is significant. While Israel's departure was the next morning, the critical events of their redemption—the final plague on Egypt, the 'passing over' of protected Israelite homes, and Pharaoh's release—all happened at night, making it a time of miraculous deliverance to be remembered.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The cardinal point on which all the regulations in this chapter depend is evidently the same as has been so often emphasized in the previous chapte…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 16:1–8. THE PASSOVER. ()
The month Abib was so called from the “ears of c…
16th Century
Protestant
Observe the month Abib. The purpose for which God instituted the Passover has already been shown in the exposition of the First Commandmen…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Observe the month of Abib Sometimes called Nisan; it answered to part, of our March, and part of April; it was an observa…
The laws for the three yearly feasts are repeated here: that of the Passover, that of Pentecost, that of Tabernacles; and the general law concernin…
