Numbers 9:2-5 sits inside this longer paragraph.
1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. 3On 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.”
4Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. 5They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. 6There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v3 Even in all points as the Lord hath instituted…
Even in all points as the Lord hath instituted it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv2, 3, 5 Num 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep…
Num 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Ver. 2. Keep the passover.] This passover; for they kept no more but this, till they came into the land of Canaan, {Jos 5:10 Exo 12:25} because of their often and uncertain removes. The feast of tabernacles likewise was for many ages omitted; or at least not in due manner observed, as by dwelling in booths, reading the book of the law, &c., {Neh 8:16-18} which a man would wonder at. But Vexatio dat intellectum: those Jews were newly returned from captivity.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On v3 So far as concerned the lamb and the unleavened…
So far as concerned the lamb and the unleavened bread, &c., for there were some things peculiar to the first passover in Egypt, as that they were to eat it in haste, with their loins girded, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their hand, which were not properly rites or ceremonies of the passover, but circumstances of their present condition being the travellers and ready to depart, &c.
Quest. Whence had they meal to make unleavened bread
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Answ. They were not now in haste, and so had time enough to procure it out of the land of Midian by the help of Moses’s father-in-law, who lived there, which land was not far from Horeb or Sinai, as appears from Exo 3:1.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv2–5 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover,....…
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover,.... Though this ordinance was enjoined the people of Israel, and observed by them at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and had been since repeated, Lev 23:5; yet without a fresh precept, or an explanation of the former, they seemed not to be obliged, or might not be sensible that they were obliged to keep it, until they came into the land of Canaan, Exo 12:25; and therefore a new order is given them to observe it:
at his appointed season; and what that season is is next declared.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v3 Verse 3. According to all the rites of it]…
Verse 3. According to all the rites of it] See all those rites and ceremonies largely explained in Clarke's notes on Ex 12:1-51.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv2, 5 Num 9:2. Let the children of Israel keep the…
Num 9:2. Let the children of Israel keep the passover — The first order for the observation of it being, that they should keep this service when they came to the promised land, (Exo 12:25,) they might have concluded there was no obligation upon them to keep it in the wilderness, had it not been for this special precept.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv3, 5 In the. Hebrew, "between the two evenings," Exodus xii.…
In the. Hebrew, "between the two evenings," Exodus xii. 6. Septuagint, "towards the evening, in its season, according to its law, and determination," sugkrisin, (ver. 14,) suntaxin, "arrangement;" in both places we have justifications. (Haydock) --- God’s law is so called, because nothing can be done right without it. (Menochius) --- The merit of human actions depends on their conformity with the will of God; (Du Hamel) and when he gives directions, we must comply exactly. (Haydock)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v3 3. At even — Hebrews, between the two evenings.…
3. At even — Hebrews, between the two evenings. The first evening began when the sun crossed the meridian, and the second at sunset. See Exo_12:6, note.
According to all the rites — R.V., “statutes.” The changed circumstances must have rendered some slight variations necessary. There is no express command, it is true, that the blood, instead of being smeared upon the lintel and posts of the doors or entrances to the tents, should be sprinkled upon the altar of burnt offering, but it is quite probable that this change was made, since there was no destroying angel about to pass through the camp, while there was a newly-consecrated altar upon which the blood of all animals slain for food, as well as in sacrifice, was to be poured out. See Lev_17:1-6, notes. The objection raised by Kurtz, that the priests, Aaron, Eleazar, and Ithamar, would be unable to perform this service, is relieved by the suggestion that they were assisted by the Levites in every thing but the act of sprinkling. See chap. Num_8:19, note. Assuming that one sheep a year old would furnish a supper for fifteen males and fifteen females, 80,000 lambs would be required. If it was possible in the time of the Emperor Nero to sprinkle upon the altar of the temple the blood of 256,500 paschal lambs in one afternoon by actual count, according to Josephus, it must have been possible in Moses’s time to sprinkle the blood of less than one third of that number upon an altar five cubits square. But this difficulty disappears if we suppose that the law of the passover takes the precedence of subsequent laws for the treatment of the blood. In this case each slayer of a lamb disposes of the blood at his own tent. A pastoral nation could easily furnish one sheep for every thirty of its population.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv2–3 2. And let the children of Israel &c.] If…
2. And let the children of Israel &c.] If the text is correct some previous command or portion of the sentence has been lost. This may have been due to the transposition of the section from its original position. LXX. reads εἰπὸν καὶ κ.τ.λ., ‘speak and let the children of Israel keep.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv3, 5 (3) At even.—Hebrew, between the two evenings. (See Note…
(3) At even.—Hebrew, between the two evenings. (See Note on Exo_12:6.)
According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof.—Better, according to all the statutes and ordinances thereof. It is obvious that some of the directions concerning the Egyptian Passover could not be observed in the wilderness. The reference must, therefore, be to those statutes and ordinances respecting the Passover which were of permanent obligation. (Comp. Num_9:12, where the ordinance respecting the time of observance is necessarily excluded.) Some of these are found in Exodus 12, whilst others of a later date are recorded in Leviticus 17 and Deuteronomy 16. It has been objected that three priests (for Nadab and Abihu were dead) could not sprinkle the blood of the large number of lambs which must have been slain. It must be remembered, however, (1) that there is no express injunction respecting the sprinkling of the blood on this occasion; and (2) that the priests were probably assisted at this time in the performance of some of their duties—as we are expressly informed that they were at the Passovers celebrated by Hezekiah and by Josiah (2Ch_30:16; 2Ch_35:11)—by the Levites.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv2, 3, 5 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover…
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. Septuagint, poieitwsan to pasca . Cf. Mat_26:18, poiw to pasca , and Luk_22:19, touto poieite eiv thmnhsin . They may have been in doubt as to whether they were to keep it in the wilderness, and indeed they do not seem to have attempted to keep it again until they reached the promised land. (see on Jos_5:5, Jos_5:6) The passover had indeed been made an "ordinance for ever," but only when they were come to the land which the Lord should give them. (Exo_12:24, 25 13:5) Apart, therefore, from express command, it would have been doubtful whether the feast should not at least he postponed. Inasmuch, however, as they had been detained at Sinai by Divine direction (albeit partly in consequence of their own idolatry, but for which they might already have been "at home"), it pleased God that they should not lack the blessing and support of the passover at its proper season.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v4 keep the Festival of the Passover
keep the Festival of the Passover
Here the word "keep" means to observe. AT: "observe the Festival of the Passover" or "celebrate the Festival of the Passover" (See: Idiom)
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in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
"on day 14 of the first month." This refers to time in the Jewish calendar. (See: Hebrew Months and Ordinal Numbers)
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festival
command
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv2, 4 9:2-3 The Hebrews were told to celebrate the Passover…
9:2-3 The Hebrews were told to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time (see Exod 12:6). • at twilight: The Hebrew day begins at sundown.
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