John 19:31
New Living Translation
31 It was the day of preparation, and the Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath, because it was Passover week). So they asked Pilate to hasten their deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their bodies could be taken down.
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John 19:14
New Living Translation
14 It was now about noon on the day of preparation for the Passover. And Pilate said to the people,[a] “Look, here is your king!”
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John 19:42
New Living Translation
42 And so, because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover[a] and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
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- 19:42 Greek because of the Jewish day of preparation.
Mark 15:42
New Living Translation
The Burial of Jesus
42 This all happened on Friday, the day of preparation,[a] the day before the Sabbath. As evening approached,
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- 15:42 Greek It was the day of preparation.
Joshua 8:29
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29 Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.
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John 19:1
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Micah 3:3
New Living Translation
3 Yes, you eat my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like meat for the cooking pot.
Proverbs 12:10
New Living Translation
10 The godly care for their animals,
but the wicked are always cruel.
Joshua 10:26-27
New Living Translation
26 Then Joshua killed each of the five kings and impaled them on five sharpened poles, where they hung until evening.
27 As the sun was going down, Joshua gave instructions for the bodies of the kings to be taken down from the poles and thrown into the cave where they had been hiding. Then they covered the opening of the cave with a pile of large rocks, which remains to this very day.
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Deuteronomy 21:22-23
New Living Translation
Various Regulations
22 “If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,[a] 23 the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung[b] is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession.
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Leviticus 23:7-16
New Living Translation
7 On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly. 8 For seven days you must present special gifts to the Lord. On the seventh day the people must again stop all their ordinary work to observe an official day for holy assembly.”
Celebration of First Harvest
9 Then the Lord said to Moses, 10 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you enter the land I am giving you and you harvest its first crops, bring the priest a bundle of grain from the first cutting of your grain harvest. 11 On the day after the Sabbath, the priest will lift it up before the Lord so it may be accepted on your behalf. 12 On that same day you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb with no defects as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 With it you must present a grain offering consisting of four quarts[a] of choice flour moistened with olive oil. It will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord. You must also offer one quart[b] of wine as a liquid offering. 14 Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels on that day until you bring this offering to your God. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.
The Festival of Harvest
15 “From the day after the Sabbath—the day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering—count off seven full weeks. 16 Keep counting until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days later. Then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
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Exodus 12:16
New Living Translation
16 On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.
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Matthew 27:62
New Living Translation
The Guard at the Tomb
62 The next day, on the Sabbath,[a] the leading priests and Pharisees went to see Pilate.
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- 27:62 Or On the next day, which is after the Preparation.
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