In the fourteenth day of this month
The first month, the month Nisan or Abib, answering to part of
our March: at even ye shall keep it, in his appointed
season:
between the two evenings, ( Exodus 12:6 ) ; and
even if it fall on the sabbath day, as Jarchi; and this was a
sabbath day, according to the Jewish writers F25:
according to all the rites of it, and according to all the
ceremonies
thereof shall ye keep it;
the former of these, according to Jarchi, respects the lamb, and
the requisites of it, that it should be without blemish, a male,
and of the first year; and the latter, according to him and
others, the removal of the leaven, and the seven days of
unleavened bread, and the eating of the lamb with bitter herbs:
they take in no doubt all that were prescribed by the original
law, except the sprinkling of the blood on the doorposts, and
also eating the passover in haste, with their loins girt, and
shoes on their feet, and staves in their hands; though some think
these latter might be observed at this time, when they were
unsettled.