10 Keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

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10 You must keep this ordinance(A) at the appointed time(B) year after year.

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The Festival of Passover

16 “Set aside the month of Abib[a](A) and observe the Passover to the Lord your God, because the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:1 March–April; called Nisan in the post-exilic period; Neh 2:1; Est 3:7

The Passover(A)

16 Observe the month of Aviv(B) and celebrate the Passover(C) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.

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except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[a](A) of your departure from Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:6 Or down, at the time of day