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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 28:16

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And in the fourteenth day of the first month, etc.] 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 <021202>Exodus 12:2 13:4), [is] the passover of the Lord; a feast in which a lamb was killed and eaten, in memory of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn in Egypt; (see <021206>Exodus 12:6,18,23,27).
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