6. keep it up until the fourteenth day, &c.--Being selected from
the rest of the flock, it was to be separated four days before
sacrifice; and for the same length of time was Christ under examination
and His spotless innocence declared before the world.
kill it in the evening--that is, the interval between the sun's
beginning to decline, and sunset, corresponding to our three o'clock in
the afternoon.
JFB.
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