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Numbers 9:4

And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Passover;   Sinai;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Feast of the Passover, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pass'over,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Law in the Old Testament;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Accommodation of the Law;   Festivals;   Law, Reading from the;   Mishnah;   New-Year;   Pesaḥ Sheni;   Pesaḥim;   Sacrifice;   Sin;   Tanḥum Bar ḥanilai;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el, that they should keep the Pesach.
King James Version
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Lexham English Bible
So Moses spoke to the Israelites to observe the Passover.
New Century Version
So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,
New English Translation
So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover.
Amplified Bible
So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, to celebrate the Passeouer.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.
Contemporary English Version
Moses told the people what the Lord had said, and they celebrated Passover there in the desert in the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe told the people of Isra'el to observe Pesach.
Darby Translation
And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should hold the passover.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate Passover.
English Standard Version
So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the passover.
Good News Translation
So Moses told the people to observe the Passover,
Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,
Literal Translation
And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare the Passover.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses spake to ye childre of Israel, yt they shulde kepe Easter.
American Standard Version
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses spake vnto the children of Israel, that they should celebrate the Passouer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses spake vnto the children of Israel that they should keepe the Passeouer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses ordered the children of Israel to sacrifice the passover,
English Revised Version
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises comaundide to the sones of Israel, that thei schulden make pask;
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses speaketh unto the sons of Israel to prepare the passover,
Update Bible Version
And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
World English Bible
Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.
New King James Version
So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
New Living Translation
So Moses told the people to celebrate the Passover
New Life Bible
So Moses told the people of Israel to keep the Passover.
New Revised Standard
So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep the passover.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Moses unto the sons of Israel that they should keep the passover.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the passover.
THE MESSAGE
Moses told the People of Israel to celebrate the Passover and they did—in the Wilderness of Sinai at evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. The People of Israel did it all just as God had commanded Moses.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, 2 Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time. 3 In 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. 4 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover. 5 So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did. 6 And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: 7 And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel? 8 And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you. 9 And the Lord said to Moses, 10 Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.
Genesis 9:14
And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,
Leviticus 3:17
Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
Leviticus 7:26
And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Leviticus 19:26
Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:21
You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
Acts 15:20
But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. The time now drawing nigh for the observation of it, it being now almost a year since their coming out of Egypt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Passover at Sinai. This, as being kept in the first month, was prior in time to the numbering of Numbers 1:1 ff, and to the other events narrated in this book. It is, however, recorded here as introductory to the ordinance of Numbers 9:6-14 in this chapter respecting the supplementary Passover; the observance of which was one of the last occurrences during the halt at Sinai.

Numbers 9:5

In some details, the present Passover differed both from that kept at the Exodus itself and from all subsequent Passovers. For example, the direction of Exodus 12:22 could not be carried out in the letter while the people were dwelling in tents; and may be regarded as superseded by Leviticus 17:3-6 (compare Deuteronomy 16:5 ff).

In other points, such as how many lambs would be wanted, how the blood of the Paschal victims could be sprinkled upon the altar in the time specified, etc., the administrators of the Law of Moses would here, as elsewhere, have, from the nature of the case, power to order what might be requisite to carry the law into effect.


 
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