What Does Exodus 12:6 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“And ye shall keep”

watch, i.e., the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e., (

as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)

“it up until the fourteenth”

four

ten (only in combination), i.e., -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth

“day”

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso

“of the same month”

the new moon; by implication, a month

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that

“shall kill”

to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“and the whole”

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“assembly”

assemblage (usually concretely)

“of the congregation”

a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)

“of Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

“it in”

between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or

“the evening”

dusk