Numbers 9:4

JPS Old Testament

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

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.

Bible in Basic English
And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses spake vnto the children of Israel, that they should celebrate the Passouer.

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 spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: ² 'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. ³ In the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, 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.' ⁴ And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. ⁵ And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. ⁶ But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. ⁷ And those men said unto him: 'We are unclean by the dead body of a man; wherefore are we to be kept back, so as not to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?' ⁸ And Moses said unto them: 'Stay ye, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.' ⁹ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ¹⁰ 'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD;

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Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud,

Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 7:26
And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eat with the blood; neither shall ye practise divination nor soothsaying.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
Only be stedfast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself; thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:23
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

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.