Also if Easter is Passover which happened on the 14 day of the month than Paul would have to be in jail of the fourteen day. After the 14 day is the day of unleavened beard. [SIZE=+1]is also believed by some people that the word "until" in Ex.12:6 means "up to" or the beginning of the fourteenth. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Ex. 12:6[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] - "And ye shall keep it ([/SIZE][SIZE=+1]up[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] ,not in Hebrew) until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening." The same Hebrew word also means "through till the end" as we see in [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Ex. 12:15,18[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] - "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]until[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel . . .In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]until[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] the one and twentieth day of the month at even." If "until" meant the beginning of the day then we would be permitted to eat leaven on the seventh day of the feast (Abib 21).
Notice also this crucial point; The Hebrew of Ex.12:18, "on the fourteenth day of the month at even," is the exact same phrase in Josh.5:10 declaring the time when Joshua kept the Passover. In Ex.12:18 it means the end of the 21st day and in Josh.5:10 it means the end of the fourteenth. Lev.23:32 shows this phrase to mean the end of the ninth day.
It is often said that Ex.12:6-14 refers to Abib 14, especially the phrase "this night" in verse 12. If we understand that "between the evenings" (vs.6) means approximately 3:00 pm, then obviously "this night" must mean Abib 15. It all depends on your understanding of the meaning of "between the evenings." Notice, however, verse 14. "This day" (the day Yahweh passed over them) shall be a [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]memorial[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] ; and you shall keep it a [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]feast[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] to Yahweh throughout your generations; you shall keep it a [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]feast[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] forever." Whenever Yahweh memorializes a day He does so by making it a Sabbath just as He memorialized His finished work of Creation, the Day of Atonement, Trumpets, etc. He also memorialized the day He passed over Israel by making it a Sabbath, Abib 15. That is why the term "feast" is used in this verse. The Hebrew word is "chagag" which was also used in Ex.23:14; "Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year." A chagag is a special time of rejoicing and dancing. Certainly, Abib 14 cannot be considered a chag or chagag in any way. It is merely the day that the Passover lamb was sacrificed.
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[SIZE=+1]Deut.16:1[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] - "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto Yahweh thy Elohim: for in the month of Abib Yahweh thy Elohim brought thee forth out of Egypt by night." Since Moses told the Israelites not to come out of their houses until morning (Ex.12:22), some people assume that they came out of Egypt the following night, Abib 15. The phrase "brought thee forth out of Egypt" refers to the period of time beginning with the killing of Egypt's firstborn males. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Ex.13:14-16[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] - "And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] , from the house of bondage: And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt." That final act of Yahweh's strength is what delivered the Israelites or what "brought them forth." That act occurred at midnight on Abib 15. The following morning the Israelites left in a great hurry. They did not have time to leaven their bread (Ex.13:33,34). If the killing of the firstborn occurred at midnight on Abib 14 the women would have had at least ten hours to leaven their bread before they left at sundown.
It is taught that the killing [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]and eating[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] of the Passover Lamb takes place on Abib 14. Ex.12:43-50 outlines this eating concerning strangers. Notice verse 51, "And it came to pass [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]the selfsame day[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] , that Yahweh did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies." The "selfsame day" can only refer to the previous verses concerning eating. The selfsame day the Passover was eaten they came out of Egypt; Abib 15 (Num.33:3). Those that keep Passover at the beginning of Abib 14 believe it was eaten that night followed by the exodus the next night.
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[SIZE=+1]II Chr.35:1-19[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] recounts Josiyah's Passover. Verse 14 suggests the sacrifices and offerings took place hours before nightfall in order to complete them. Since twilight is only a period of approximately 40 minutes, how could they kill, bleed, clean and cook so many offerings and sacrifices in so short a time? This verse takes place [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]after[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] they had roasted the Passover offerings which would have taken several hours.
It is implied in verse 14 that the priests were busy with burnt offerings from before sunset until night and therefore, the Levites took charge of the passover lambs themselves. Yet, verse 11 implies that the priests sprinkled the blood [of the passover lambs] from their hands. Verse 14 then implies that [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]after[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] they finished sacrificing the lambs for the people [and by extension, [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]after[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] the priests finished sprinkling the blood for the people], the Levites began sacrificing lambs for themselves and the priests. Once the priests finished sprinkling blood they began offering burnt offerings until night.
Beginning of the 14th proponents use verses 16 & 17 to teach, "The whole service of [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]the Passover[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] [including eating] was [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]observed[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] that day (in one day) just as Moses prescribed; that is, on the 14th." (emphasis & brackets mine). The KJV says, "So all the service [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]of Yahweh[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] was [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]prepared[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] the same day to keep the passover..." Notice the difference in the emphasized words.
Moffatt's translation is often used to support that view. It says, "In this way, the whole service of [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]holding the passover in honor of[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] the Eternal and sacrificing burnt-offerings on the altar of the Eternal was carried out that day..." The phrase in bold type is not in the Hebrew. It simply says, "all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day..." Moffatt's version leads one to believe that it is talking about a Passover service or ceremony whereas the Hebrew shows the service to be [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]people[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] prepared to conduct the passover ceremony. This can be seen by verses 2-5,10,14-16. Each family division had a specific service to perform and to prepare for. Verse 16 says that all those that had a service to perform were prepared the same day, Abib 14.
The last Old Testament verse we should read is [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Eze.45:21[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] . "In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten." This verse does not say "and a feast of seven days" thereby making a distinction between Passover and Unleavened. According to Strong's Concordance, Passover can mean either the festival or the victim (the sacrifice). Passover in this verse would refer to the festival. Verses such as Ex.12:6; Nu.9:5; and Lev.23:5 refer to the victim. Many people do not understand this and erroneously assume the killing and eating must take place on the same day. Once the Passover is sacrificed at the end of the fourteenth it is eaten as the first meal of the feast.
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Numbers 28:16-17, “And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD. And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.”