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Passover sacrifice: roasted or boiled?

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Roasted, Berean Standard Bible, Exodus 12:

9a Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked [H1310] in boiling [H1311] water, but only roasted [H6748] over the fire..
cooked
מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל (mə·ḇuš·šāl)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1310: To boil up, cooking, to ripen

Strong's Hebrew: 1310. בָּשַׁל (bashal) — 28 Occurrences

This Hebrew word had two meanings, Brown-Driver-Briggs:

  1. boil
  2. cook (general)
To make the meaning clear, a 2nd Hebrew word (cognate) was added:

boiling
וּבָשֵׁ֥ל (ū·ḇā·šêl)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1311: Cooked, boiled

To affirm cooking action, yet another word was added:

roasted
צְלִי־ (ṣə·lî-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6748: Roasted, a roast

H6748 was an unambiguous word that occurred only three times.

Sometime later (ESV), De 16:

7a you shall cook [H1310] it [the Passover lamb] and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose.
How to cook it?

Berean Standard Bible interpreted it as

you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose.
The Hebrew H1310 did not specifically say roast. BSB interpreted it as roasting, which was valid given Exodus 12:9.

Many years later, in 2 Chronicles 35 (Literal Standard Version):

13 they cook [H1310] the Passover with fire according to the ordinance, and they have cooked [H1310] the sanctified things in pots, and in kettles, and in pans—for all the sons of the people.
How?

English Standard Version interpreted:

they roasted [H1310] the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule;
the rule of Exodus 12:9

and they boiled [H1310] the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
Passover sacrifice: roasted or boiled?

The apparent contradictions resulted from the ambiguities in the Hebrew word H1310, which could mean boil or cook. However, the contradictions can be resolved nicely if we stick to the clarity of H6748 in Exodus 12:9.