First Passover was on Abib 14, the lambs were killed between the evening s of the 13th and 14th.... the Destroyer came at midnight on the 14th.not the 15th.. the 15th the next evening began the thin bread feast because they were traveling... Like I said, the Jews of our Messiahs day were smudging those two distinct days... what are you to do on the 14th if you eat lamb on the 15th? .. our savior celebrated the Passover perfectly on abib/Nisan 14 which was 24 hours before those Pharisees with their leaven... what is Passover on the 15th commemorating when the miracle of Passover event occurred at midnight on the 14th? if the lambs were killed on the 14th in the evening, wouldn’t that be the 15th by sunset/sunrise day count? If the Jews in Egypt waited till the 15th to eat their lamb, they perished with the Egyptians as Passover was the midnight the day before.
Absolute Balderdash!
I am at a loss as to why this simple chronology gets so screwed up!
Midnight of the 14th would be approximately six hours after the 14th began (at the sundown of the 13th). The Hebrew, "Beyn ha Arbayim" indeed means, "Between the Evenings". But the evenings both occur on the same 24 hour "Hebrew" day!
The Hebrews observed two "evenings" everyday. The first at high noon when the sun was "Even" overhead and the second when the sun was "Even" on the horizon....just before it set. Let's read the biblical proof for this:
The phrase itself appears in more than a few locations in the Hebrew.....and here are the passages that pertain to the Passover: [Exodus 12:6][Leviticus 23:5][Numbers 9:3-5][Numbers 9:11]. The proof text is [Exodus 29:38-41]:
Young's Literal Translation:38‘And this [is] that which thou dost prepare on the altar; two lambs, sons of a year, daily continually; 39the one lamb thou dost prepare in the morning, and the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; 40and a tenth [deal] of fine flour, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin, and a libation, a fourth part of a hin, of wine, [is] for the one lamb. 41‘And the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; according to the present of the morning, and according to its libation, thou dost prepare for it, for sweet fragrance, a fire-offering, to Jehovah: —
The daily sacrifices were done to honor Yahweh....and they were done daily. That means.....two sacrifices per day....not one in the morning and another after the sun went down because that then.....would not be occurring on the same day! Daily continually means both... the same day!
Josephus [Wars, Book VI, Chapter IX, Paragraph 3] Snip: So these high priests, upon the coming of that feast which is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth hour till the eleventh, but so that a company not less than ten (33) belong to every sacrifice, (for it is not lawful for them to feast singly by themselves,) and many of us are twenty in a company, found the number of sacrifices was two hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred;
From the ninth hour to the eleventh hour would be 3:00 P.M. (afternoon) until 5:00 P.M. just before sunset! Scripture validates two sacrifices per day; Josephus validates the same thing and the Hebrew language itself verifies the concept of two separate evenings each day.
The observance of Passover began on the sunset of the 13th when the Hebrew day was now the 14th [Leviticus 23:5]. The preparation (the deleavening process began immediately) and by the next afternoon (still the 14th) the lambs were slaughtered for the Feast. I realize that it is difficult for many to understand that the following afternoon could still be the same day.....because they are so used to starting their days at midnight. Stop and think about how much better Yahweh's method really is.
He begins the day at sunset because that was what occurred first originally....darkness [Genesis 1:2]. The daylight came next. If you observe the Greco/Roman method you have 6 hours of darkness, 12 hours of daylight and 6 more hours of darkness to complete the cycle. Stupid!
The lambs were then eaten after the sunset of the 14th as the 15th began [Leviticus 23:6]. Here's how they were eaten:
[Exodus 12:8-11] 8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
They were to eat it with Unleavened Bread and bitter herbs. That's why it's called the Feast of Unleavened Bread.....and it's eaten on the 15th (that night)! The destroyer (angel of death) [Exodus 12:29] came that night (the 15th) because we are told in [Numbers 33:3] that it was the morning after the Passover (this would be the 15th) that they left Egypt. Here's the passage:
3And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Passover was the 14th (sundown to sundown). The Feast was the 15th (sundown to sundown)......and they left Egypt that very day of the Feast, the morning after they had eaten the lamb which was slaughtered between the evenings (noon and sunset of the 14th) and eaten after the sunset of Passover during the early hours of the 15th.....before midnight when the destroyer came and Pharaoh finally agreed to let them go [Exodus 12:31-32]! PHEW!