Imamat 23:5

23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, ¹  is a Passover offering to the Lord.

Imamat 25:8

Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release

25:8 “‘You must count off ²  seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, ³  and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. ⁴ 

[23:5]  ¹ tn Heb “between the two evenings,” perhaps designating the time between the setting of the sun and the true darkness of night. Cf. KJV, ASV “at even”; NAB “at the evening twilight.”

[23:5]  sn See B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 156, for a full discussion of the issues raised in this verse. The rabbinic tradition places the slaughter of Passover offerings between approximately 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., not precisely at twilight. Moreover, the term פֶּסַח (pesakh) may mean “protective offering” rather than “Passover offering,” although they amount to about the same thing in the historical context of the exodus from Egypt (see Exod 11-12).

[25:8]  ² tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”

[25:8]  ³ tn Heb “seven years seven times.”

[25:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”