And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
Thou shalt roast - (see the note at Exodus 12:8: cf. 2 Chronicles 35:13.)
Thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. The sense of this passage, on the first glance of the words, seems to point to the morning after the first day-the Passover eve. Perhaps, however, the divinely-appointed duration of this feast, its solemn character and important object, the journey of the people from the distant parts of the land to be present, and the recorded examples of their continuing all the time (2 Chronicles 30:21; 2 Chronicles 35:17), though these may be considered extraordinary, and therefore exceptional occasions, may warrant the conclusion that the leave given to the people to return home was to be on the morning after the completion of the seven days. In later times permission to travel on the day after the paschal supper was granted to an extent not enjoyed on the weekly Sabbath, and an attention to secular work was considered lawful on the remaining days of the festival (Matthew 26:3-5; Matthew 27:62; John 7:32-45; John 10:22; John 10:31).