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Brenton's Septuagint

Numbers 9:2

Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its season.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Zeal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Season;   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;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Accommodation of the Law;   Festivals;   Law, Reading from the;   Mishnah;   New-Year;   Pesaḥ Sheni;   Pesaḥim;   Sacrifice;   Triennial Cycle;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Moreover let the children of Yisra'el keep the Pesach in its appointed season.
King James Version
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Lexham English Bible
"Let the Israelites observe the Passover at its appointed time.
New Century Version
"Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.
New English Translation
"The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Amplified Bible
"The sons of Israel are to keep the Passover at its appointed time.
New American Standard Bible
"Now the sons of Israel are to celebrate the Passover at its appointed time.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The children of Israel shall also celebrate the Passeouer at ye time appointed thereunto.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Contemporary English Version
to say to the people, "Celebrate Passover
Complete Jewish Bible
"Let the people of Isra'el observe Pesach at its designated time.
Darby Translation
Let the children of Israel also hold the passover at its set time;
Easy-to-Read Version
"Tell the Israelites to celebrate Passover at the chosen time.
English Standard Version
"Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
George Lamsa Translation
Let the children of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.
Good News Translation
"On the fourteenth day of this month, beginning at sunset, the people of Israel are to observe the Passover according to all the rules and regulations for it."
Christian Standard Bible®
“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Literal Translation
Also the sons of Israel shall prepare the Passover in its appointed season.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the children of Israel kepe Easter in his season,
American Standard Version
Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
Bible in Basic English
Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let the children of Israel celebrate the Passouer at the tyme appoynted thervnto:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
King James Version (1611)
Let the children of Israel also keepe the Passeouer, at his appointed season.
English Revised Version
Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
Berean Standard Bible
"The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, The sones of Israel make pask in his tyme,
Young's Literal Translation
`Also, the sons of Israel prepare the passover in its appointed season;
Update Bible Version
Moreover let the sons of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at its appointed season.
World English Bible
"Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
New King James Version
"Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
New Living Translation
"Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time,
New Life Bible
"Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at the time given for it.
New Revised Standard
Let the Israelites keep the passover at its appointed time.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let the sons of Israel therefore, keep the passover in its appointed season:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,
Revised Standard Version
"Let the people of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina in the second year after they had gone forth from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying, 2 Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its season. 3 On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, thou shalt keep it in its season; thou shalt keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance. 4 And Moses ordered the children of Israel to sacrifice the passover, 5 on the fourteenth day of the first month in the wilderness of Sina, as the Lord appointed Moses, so the children of Israel did. 6 And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able to keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7 And those men said to Moses, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: shall we therefore fail to offer the gift to the Lord in its season in the midst of the children of Israel? 8 And Moses said to them, stand there, and I will hear what charge the Lord will give concerning you. 9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the passover to the Lord,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

keep: Exodus 12:1-20

his appointed: Numbers 28:16, Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:14, Leviticus 23:5, Deuteronomy 16:1, Deuteronomy 16:2, Joshua 5:10, 2 Chronicles 35:1, Ezra 6:19, Mark 14:12, Luke 22:7, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 5:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:21 - and take Exodus 23:15 - the feast Numbers 9:7 - we may not offer Numbers 9:13 - because Numbers 28:2 - General 2 Kings 23:21 - as it is written Ezekiel 45:21 - ye shall

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.
Genesis 2:19
And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.
Genesis 9:4
But flesh with blood of life ye shall not eat.
Genesis 9:8
And God spoke to Noe, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:20
And Noe began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.
Genesis 9:23
And Sem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.
Genesis 35:5
So Israel departed from Secima, and the fear of God was upon the cities round about them, and they did not pursue after the children of Israel.
Leviticus 26:6
And I will give peace in your land, and ye shall sleep, and none shall make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,
Leviticus 26:22
And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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,

Leviticus 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, Exodus 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.

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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