Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Numbers 9:2 in other translations
| BSB | “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. |
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| WEB | “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. |
| ASV | Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. |
| YLT | ‘Also, the sons of Israel prepare the passover in its appointed season; |
| DARBY | Let the children of Israel also hold the passover at its set time; |
| BBE | Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time. |
| Webster | Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at its appointed season. |
What does Numbers 9:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 9:2-5
Nu 9:1-5. The Passover Enjoined.
2-5. Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season, &c.--The date of this command to keep the passover in the wilderness was given shortly after the erection and consecration of the tabernacle and preceded the numbering of the people by a month. (Compare Nu 9:1 with Nu 1:1, 2). But it is narrated after that transaction in order to introduce the notice of a particular case, for which a law was provided to meet the occasion. This was the first observance of the passover since the exodus; and without a positive injunction, the Israelites were under no obligation to keep it till their settlement in the land of Canaan (Ex 12:25). The anniversary was kept on the exact day of the year on which they, twelve months before, had departed from Egypt; and it was marked by all the peculiar rites--the he lamb and the unleavened bread. The materials would be easily procured--the lambs from their numerous flocks and the meal for the unleavened bread, by the aid of Jethro, from the land of Midian, which was adjoining their camp (Ex 3:1). But their girded loins, their sandaled feet, and their staff in their hand, being mere circumstances attending a hurried departure and not essential to the rite, were not repeated. It is supposed to have been the only observance of the feast during their forty years' wandering; and Jewish writers say that, as none could eat the passover except they were circumcised (Ex 12:43, 44, 48), and circumcision was not practised in the wilderness [Jos 5:4-7], there could be no renewal of the paschal solemnity.Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
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…
Numbers 9:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 9:2
- 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- Deuteronomy 16:1-2
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.
- 2 Chronicles 35:1
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Leviticus 23:5
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.
- Exodus 12:1-20
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 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. …
- Luke 22:7
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
- Mark 14:12
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
- Numbers 28:16
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.
- Ezra 6:19
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Joshua 5:10
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
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Context
- Numbers 9:1
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
- 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.
Numbers 9:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los hijos de Israel harán la pascua á su tiempo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que les fils d’Israël fassent aussi la Pâque au temps fixé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Kinder Israel sollen das Passah feiern zu seiner bestimmten Zeit; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Faciant filii Israël Phase in tempore suo, |