Ulangan 16:1

The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival

16:1 Observe the month Abib ¹  and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month ²  he ³  brought you out of Egypt by night.

Ulangan 16:6

16:6 but you must sacrifice it ⁴  in the evening in ⁵  the place where he ⁶  chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

[16:1]  ¹ sn The month Abib, later called Nisan (Neh 2:1; Esth 3:7), corresponds to March-April in the modern calendar.

[16:1]  ² tn Heb “in the month Abib.” The demonstrative “that” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:1]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[16:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

[16:6]  ⁵ tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”

[16:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.