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New Living Translation

Numbers 9:2

"Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time,

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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its 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 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 A year after Israel's departure from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. In the first month of that year he said, 2 "Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time, 3 at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. Be sure to follow all my decrees and regulations concerning this celebration." 4 So Moses told the people to celebrate the Passover 5 in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the fourteenth day of the month. And they celebrated the festival there, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 6 But some of the men had been ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, so they could not celebrate the Passover that day. They came to Moses and Aaron that day 7 and said, "We have become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead body. But why should we be prevented from presenting the Lord 's offering at the proper time with the rest of the Israelites?" 8 Moses answered, "Wait here until I have received instructions for you from the Lord ." 9 This was the Lord 's reply to Moses. 10 "Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If any of the people now or in future generations are ceremonially unclean at Passover time because of touching a dead body, or if they are on a journey and cannot be present at the ceremony, they may still celebrate the Lord 's Passover.

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
Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground."
Genesis 2:19
So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
Genesis 9:4
But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it.
Genesis 9:8
Then God told Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:20
After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.
Genesis 35:5
As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob's family.
Leviticus 26:6
"I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.

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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