Leviticus 23:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

In the fourteenth day See Exodus 12:18. At even For all the Jewish festivals were kept from evening to evening, their day beginning in the evening. Is the Lord's passover Exodus 12:11. Though Moses had often before mentioned this, and several other of their solemnities, he here sets them down all together, according to the order of time in which they were kept, that this chapter might serve the Jews for a general table of all their religious festivals.

Leviticus 23:5

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.