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Numbers 9:4

And Moyses spake vnto the children of Israel, that they should celebrate the Passouer.

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.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.
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 Lorde spake vnto Moyses in the wildernesse of Sinai, in the first moneth of the seconde yere, after they were come out of the lande of Egypt, saying: 2 Let the children of Israel celebrate the Passouer at the tyme appoynted thervnto: 3 Euen ye fourteenth day of this moneth at euen: ye shall kepe it in his season accordyng to all the ceremonies of it, and according to all the maners therof, shall ye kepe it. 4 And Moyses spake vnto the children of Israel, that they should celebrate the Passouer. 5 And they kept the Passouer the foureteenth day of the first moneth at euen in the wildernesse of Sinai: according to all that the Lorde comaunded Moyses, euen so dyd the children of Israel. 6 And certayne men were defiled by a dead man, that they myght not kepe the Passouer the same day, and they came before Moyses & Aaron the same day. 7 And those men sayde vnto hym, we are defiled by a dead man: wherfore are we kept backe, that we may not offer an offeryng vnto the Lorde in due season, among the children of Israel? 8 And Moyses sayd vnto them: Stande styll, and I wyll heare what the Lorde wyll commaunde concernyng you. 9 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: 10 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say: If any man be vncleane by the reason of a coarse, or be in a way farre distaunt from you and from your generations, he shall kepe the Passouer vnto the Lorde.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.
Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude.
Leviticus 3:17
Let it be a perpetuall statute for your generations throughout your dwellynges, yt ye eate neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26
Moreouer, ye shall eate no maner of blood, whether it be of foule or of beast, in any your dwellynges.
Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eate vpon blood, neither shall ye vse witchcraft, nor obserue tymes.
Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eate the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
But be strong, that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the fleshe.
Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall eate of nothyng that dyeth alone: But thou shalt geue it vnto the straunger that is in thy citie, that he eate it, or thou mayest sell it vnto a straunger: For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke.
Deuteronomy 15:23
Only eate not the blood therof: but powre it vpon the grounde as water.
Acts 15:20
But that we write vnto them, that they absteyne themselues from fylthynesse of idols, and fro fornication, and from strangled, 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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