In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh. In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
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In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
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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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in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof; according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
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- John 19:36 (vv11–12) For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
- Exodus 12:46 (v12) It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
- Exodus 12:10 (v12) You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
- Exodus 12:43 (v12) Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
- 2 Chronicles 30:2-15 (v11) For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month. For they could…
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- Numbers 9:3 (vv11–12) On 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…
- Exodus 12:2-14 (v11) “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of…
- Exodus 12:43-49 (v11) Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, but every man’s servant who is bought…
- Deuteronomy 16:3 (v11) You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v11 So that the unclean, and they that are not…
So that the unclean, and they that are not at home, have a month longer granted unto them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv11–12 Num 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month…
Num 9:11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].
Ver. 11. With unleavened bread.] Teaching them to "purge out the old leaven," that fusty, swelling, souring, spreading, corruption of nature and practice.
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And bitter herbs.] Directing them to true humiliation and bitterness for sin; without which there can be no sweetness in the blood of Christ.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v12 Leave none of it unto the morning, but either…
Leave none of it unto the morning, but either eat or burn it before that time.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv11–12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning,....…
They shall leave none of it unto the morning,.... None of the flesh of the passover lamb, what was left was to be burnt with fire, Exo 12:10,
nor break any bone of it; the same was enjoined; see Gill on Exo 12:46,
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according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it: as when observed in its time, excepting the feast of unleavened bread, which followed the first passover, and those rites which were peculiar to the passover, as kept at their first coming out of Egypt; as the sprinkling the blood of the lamb on the doorposts, eating it in haste, &c.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv11–12 The later Jews speak of this as the “little…
The later Jews speak of this as the “little Passover.” Coming, as it did, a month after the proper Passover, it afforded ample time for a man to purify himself from legal defilement, as also to return from any but a very distant journey. Compare Hezekiah’s act 2Ch 30:1-3.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v11 11. The fourteenth day of the second month —…
11. The fourteenth day of the second month — Thus a fundamental law is supplemented, and a standing ordinance is permanently established, in answer to prayer, first to Moses and then to the Lord. See chap. xxxvi for another instance. Bitter herbs of five kinds are eaten by the Jews as a salad with the paschal lamb; namely, lettuce, endive, chicory, and two others, the Hebrew names of which have not been identified with known plants. A very large number of bitter plants are eaten as salads in Syria, even the hearts of all the larger wild thistles. Says Tristram: “The leaves of the elecampane were gathered for salad by the Jehalin Arabs who accompanied us, as well as many cresses which grew in the southern desert, or at the south of the Dead Sea.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v12 12. nor break a bone thereof] Cf. Joh_19:36.
12. nor break a bone thereof] Cf. Joh_19:36.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v12 (12) According to all the ordinances.—The word rendered ordinances…
(12) According to all the ordinances.—The word rendered ordinances is in the singular number: according to all the ordinance (or statute). The primary reference is probably to the law respecting the Paschal Lamb. According to Jewish tradition the feast was only observed for one day instead of seven, and it was not necessary to put away leaven.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv11–12 The fourteenth day of the second month. The interval…
The fourteenth day of the second month. The interval gave ample time to return from any ordinary journey, or to be purified from pollution of death. It was in the spirit of this command, though not in the letter of it, that Hezekiah acted. (2Ch_30:2) And possibly it was in the spirit of this command that our Lord acted when he ate the passover by anticipation with his disciples twenty-four hours before the proper time at which time he was himself to be the Lamb slain. With unleavened bread and bitter herbs. These and the following directions are expressly added for fear lest any should think that the little passover might be celebrated with less solemnity and with less carefulness than the great passover.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v11 second month
second month
i.e. May.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v11 eat the Passover
eat the Passover
Here the word "eat" means to observe. AT: "observe the Passover" or "celebrate the Passover" (See: Idiom)
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the second month on the fourteenth day
"day 14 of month 2." This refers to time in the Jewish calendar. (See: Hebrew Months and Ordinal Numbers)
at evening
"at sunset"
with bread that is made without yeast
"with bread that contains no yeast"
bitter herbs
These are small plants that have a strong and usually bad taste.
or break any of its bones
"and they must not break any of its bones"
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day
bread
yeast
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v12 9:12 The bones of the Passover lamb were not…
9:12 The bones of the Passover lamb were not to be broken (see Exod 12:46; Ps 34:20; John 19:32-36; cp. John 1:29; 1 Cor 5:7). The apostle John made reference to this instruction when reporting that Jesus’ legs were not broken on the cross (John 19:36).
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