| 5. Linguistic Exegesis The clause bachodesh harishon {בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן | ba-ḥō-ḏeš ha-rî-ʾšôn} “in the first month” establishes the temporal framework. The numeric construction be-arbaah asar la-chodesh {בְּאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר לַחֹדֶשׁ | bə-ʾar-bā-ʿāh ʿā-ṣār la-ḥō-ḏeš} directly orders preposition + numeral + noun to yield an ordinal sense “on the fourteenth of the month.” The idiom bein haarbayim {בֵּין הָעַרְבָּיִם | bēn ha-ʿar-ba-yīm} signals the period between sunset and full darkness. Hebrew typically positions temporal expressions at the beginning of a clause, whereas English often relocates them; the English renderings preserve the sequence while adjusting word order for readability. The festival name pesach functions as the subject, and the final prepositional phrase la-Yahweh {לַיהוָה | la-Yahweh} denotes divine association. |