Imamat 23:5

23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, ¹  is a Passover offering to the Lord.

Imamat 23:7

23:7 On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work. ² 

[23:5]  ¹ tn Heb “between the two evenings,” perhaps designating the time between the setting of the sun and the true darkness of night. Cf. KJV, ASV “at even”; NAB “at the evening twilight.”

[23:5]  sn See B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 156, for a full discussion of the issues raised in this verse. The rabbinic tradition places the slaughter of Passover offerings between approximately 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., not precisely at twilight. Moreover, the term פֶּסַח (pesakh) may mean “protective offering” rather than “Passover offering,” although they amount to about the same thing in the historical context of the exodus from Egypt (see Exod 11-12).

[23:7]  ² tn Heb “work of service”; KJV “servile work”; NASB “laborious work”; TEV “daily work.”