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but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
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Commentators stress that this verse marks a significant shift. The Passover was no longer to be a private, family observance as it was in Egypt, but a national pilgrimage. God commanded that the sacrifice must happen at the single, central sanctuary He would choose (later identified as Jerusalem), reinforcing the unity of the nation around God's dwelling place.
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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…
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Anglican
Deuteronomy 16:1–8. THE PASSOVER. ()
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Reformed Baptist
But at the place which the Lord your God shall choose to placehis name in To place th…
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