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The question

At what point during Passover is the "slaying of the lamb"?

The answer

In the evening, as it is written in the Holy Book of Deuteronomy 16:6, "But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt."

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