John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 5. In the fourteenth [day] of the first month , etc.] The month Nisan, the same with Abib, the month in which the children of Israel came out of Egypt, for which reason it was made the first month in the year, answering to part of our March and part of April; and for the same reason was the passover kept at this time, as follows: at even [is] the Lord’s passover ; that is, that was the time for the keeping the passover, even “between the two evenings”, as it may be rendered; from the sixth hour and onward, as Jarchi, trial is, after noon or twelve o’clock the middle of the day, as Gersom, when the sun began to decline; (see Gill on “ Exodus 12:6”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-14 - The feast of the Passover was to continue seven days; not idle days spent in sport, as many that are called Christians spend their holy-days. Offerings were made to the Lord at his altar; and the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godl meditation. The sheaf of first-fruits was typical of the Lord Jesus who is risen from the dead as the First-fruits of them that slept. Ou Lord Jesus rose from the dead on the very day that the first-fruit were offered. We are taught by this law to honour the Lord with ou substance, and with the first-fruits of all our increase, Pr 3:9. The were not to eat of their new corn, till God's part was offered to his out of it; and we must always begin with God: begin every day with him begin every meal with him, begin every affair and business with him seek first the kingdom of God.
Original Hebrew בחדשׁ2320 הראשׁון7223 בארבעה702 עשׂר6240 לחדשׁ2320 בין996 הערבים6153 פסח6453 ליהוה׃3069
