Numbers 9 · Verse 11

Numbers 9:11

The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Numbers 9:11, King James Version

Numbers 9:11 in other translations

BSBSuch people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
WEBIn the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
ASVIn the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
YLTin the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;
DARBYIn the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the two evenings, shall they hold it; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.
BBEIn the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;
WebsterThe fourteenth day of the second month at evening, they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

What does Numbers 9:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 9:8-14

8-14. Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you--A solution of the difficulty was soon obtained, it being enacted, by divine authority, that to those who might be disqualified by the occurrence of a death in their family circle or unable by distance to keep the passover on the anniversary day, a special license was granted of observing it by themselves on the same…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 9:1-14

God gave particular orders for the keeping of this passover, and, for aught that appears, after this, they kept no passover till they came to Canaan, Jos 5:10. It early showed that the ceremonial institutions were not to continue always, as so soon after they were appointed, some were suffered to sleep for many years. But the ordinance of the Lord's Supper was not thus set aside in the first days of the Christian…

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Numbers 9:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320
הַשֵּׁנִ֜יha.she.Ni<the> secondH8145
בְּאַרְבָּעָ֨הbe.'ar.ba.'Ahon [the] four-H702
עָשָׂ֥ר'a.SarteenH6240
י֛וֹםYomdayH3117
בֵּ֥יןbeinbetweenH996
הָעַרְבַּ֖יִםha.'ar.Ba.yimthe eveningsH6153
יַעֲשׂ֣וּya.'a.Suthey will observeH6213
אֹת֑וֹ'o.To<obj.> itH853
עַל\־'al-withH5921
מַצּ֥וֹתma.Tzotunleavened bread<s>H4682
וּמְרֹרִ֖יםu.me.ro.Rimand bitter herbsH4844
יֹאכְלֻֽהוּ\׃yo.khe.Lu.huthey will eat itH398

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 9:11

  • 2 Chronicles 30:2-15

    For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer–sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. …

  • Numbers 9:3

    In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

  • Exodus 12:43-49

    And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. …

  • Deuteronomy 16:3

    Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

  • John 19:36

    For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.

  • Exodus 12:2-14

    This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
fourteenth.
3; Ex 12:2-14,43-49; 2Ch 30:2-15; Joh 19:36
and eat it.
Ex 12:8

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Context

  • Numbers 9:10

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

  • Numbers 9:11

    The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

  • Numbers 9:12

    They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

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Numbers 9:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
En el mes segundo, á los catorce días del mes, entre las dos tardes, la harán: con cenceñas y hierbas amargas la comerán;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ils la feront le second mois, le quatorzième jour, entre les deux soirs; ils la mangeront avec des pains sans levain et des herbes amères;
German
Elberfelder 1871
im zweiten Monat, am vierzehnten Tage, zwischen den zwei Abenden, sollen sie es feiern; mit Ungesäuertem und bitteren Kräutern sollen sie es essen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
in mense secundo, quartadecima die mensis ad vesperam. Cum azymis et lactucis agrestibus comedent illud: