Numbers 9 · Verse 3

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 9:3, King James Version

Numbers 9:3 in other translations

BSBYou are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
WEBOn the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
ASVIn the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.
YLTin the fourteenth day of this month between the evenings ye prepare it in its appointed season; according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances ye prepare it.'
DARBYon the fourteenth day in this month between the two evenings, ye shall hold it at its set time; according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof shall ye hold it.
BBEIn the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.
WebsterIn the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all its rites, and according to all its ceremonies, shall ye keep it.

What does Numbers 9:3 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…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 According to all the rites of it - See all those rites and ceremonies largely explained in the notes on Exodus 12 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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…

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Numbers 9:3 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.

בְּאַרְבָּעָ֣הbe.'ar.ba.'Ahon [the] four-H702
עָשָֽׂר\־'a.sar-teenH6240
י֠וֹםYomdayH3117
בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁba.Cho.deshin the monthH2320
הַזֶּ֜הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088
בֵּ֧יןbeinbetweenH996
הָֽעֲרְבַּ֛יִםha.'ar.Ba.yimthe eveningsH6153
תַּעֲשׂ֥וּta.'a.Suyou will observeH6213
אֹת֖וֹ'o.To<obj.> itH853
בְּמוֹעֲד֑וֹbe.mo.'a.Doat appointed time itsH4150
כְּכָל\־ke.khol-according to allH3605
חֻקֹּתָ֥יוchu.ko.Tavstatutes itsH2708
וּכְכָל\־u.khekh.khol-and according to allH3605
מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יוmish.pa.Tavjudgments itsH4941
תַּעֲשׂ֥וּta.'a.Suyou will observeH6213
אֹתֽוֹ\׃'o.To<obj.> itH853

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

Cross references for Numbers 9:3

  • Exodus 12:6-11

    And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. …

  • Leviticus 23:5

    In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:2

    For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:15

    Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

  • Hebrews 9:26

    For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  • Numbers 9:11-12

    The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the fourteenth.
2Ch 30:2,15
at even. Heb. between the two evenings.
Ex 12:6; *marg:
Heb 9:26
according to all the rites.
11,12
See on
Ex 12:7-11

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Context

  • 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 9:4

    And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

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Numbers 9:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El décimocuarto día de este mes, entre las dos tardes, la haréis á su tiempo: conforme á todos sus ritos, y conforme á todas sus leyes la haréis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous la ferez au temps fixé, le quatorzième jour de ce mois, entre les deux soirs; vous la ferez selon tous ses statuts et selon toutes ses ordonnances.
German
Elberfelder 1871
am vierzehnten Tage in diesem Monat, zwischen den zwei Abenden, sollt ihr es feiern zu seiner bestimmten Zeit; nach allen seinen Satzungen und nach allen seinen Vorschriften sollt ihr es feiern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
quartadecima die mensis hujus ad vesperam, juxta omnes cæremonias et justificationes ejus.