Exodus 12:6

6. Until the fourteenth day For three days, which were, as we suppose, the days of darkness in the land of Egypt, the devoted lamb was kept for the sacrifice in each family the centre of prayerful and grateful meditations as they talked together of the great morning of deliverance that was about to dawn on them.

The whole assembly Each family in its own house, that the sacrifice might be simultaneous in all the land.

In the evening Literally, Between the two evenings; the time which was afterward specified for the evening sacrifice, Numbers 28:4, and described in Deuteronomy 16:6, as the time of the “going down of the sun . ” The Rabbies understand that the first of the “two evenings” is when the sun begins to decline and the heat to decrease, or about three o’clock, and that the second is sunset, so that “between the two evenings” would be, at the fourteenth of Abib, between three and six . Kimchi, Rashi, and others, interpret the period of the declining sun as the first evening, and that of twilight as the second; so that the moment of sunset is the point “between the two evenings.” Whichever view be adopted, “about sunset” is the time fixed, allowing some latitude on both sides, as became necessary afterwards when the lambs were offered in the temple.

The Lamb of God was offered at the time of the paschal feast, and at the paschal hour, for “at the ninth hour,” three in the afternoon, he “cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.” Mark 15:34; Mark 15:37.