Numbers 28:16 (BSB)

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

From Numbers 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 28:16

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 28:16: 16. And in the fourteenth day. It is true that the instruction here given has some connection with the feast of the passover, but since the sacrifices are avowedly treated of, and no mention is made of its other observances, except in this place, I have connected it with the continual sacrifice, as its concomitant or part.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 28:16-31: Here is, I. The appointment of the pass-over sacrifices; not that which was the chief, the paschal lamb (sufficient instructions had formerly been given concerning that), but those which were to be offered upon the seven days of unleavened bread, which followed it, Num 28:17-25.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 28:16: And in the fourteenth day of the first month,.... The month Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan or Abib, which, upon the Israelites coming out of Egypt, and on that account, was made the first month; otherwise Tisri or September was the first month, see Exo 12:2, is the passover of the Lord; a feast in which a lamb was killed and eaten, in memory...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 28:16: in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover--The law for that great annual festival is given (Lev 23:5), but some details are here introduced, as certain specified offerings are prescribed to be made on each of the seven days of unleavened bread [Num 28:18-25].