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Good News Translation

Numbers 9:4

So Moses told the people to observe 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.
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.
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 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert in the first month of the second year after the people of Israel had left Egypt. He said, 2"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." 4 So Moses told the people to observe the Passover, 5 and on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month they did so in the Sinai Desert. The people did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses. 6 But there were some people who were ritually unclean because they had touched a corpse, and they were not able to keep the Passover on that day. They went to Moses and Aaron 7 and said, "We are unclean because we have touched a corpse, but why should we be excluded from presenting the Lord 's offering with the rest of the Israelites?" 8 Moses answered, "Wait until I receive instructions from the Lord ." 9 The Lord told Moses 10 to say to the people of Israel, "When any of you or your descendants are unclean from touching a corpse or are far away on a journey, but still want to keep the Passover, 11 you are permitted to observe it one month later instead, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the second month. Celebrate it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
and with all living beings—all birds and all animals—everything that came out of the boat with you.
Genesis 9:14
Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears,
Leviticus 3:17
No Israelite may eat any fat or any blood; this is a rule to be kept forever by all Israelites wherever they live.
Leviticus 7:26
No matter where the Israelites live, they must never use the blood of birds or animals for food.
Leviticus 19:26
"Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Do not practice any kind of magic.
Deuteronomy 12:16
But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Deuteronomy 14:21
"Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people. "Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
But do not use their blood for food; instead, you must pour it out on the ground like water.
Acts 15:20
Instead, we should write a letter telling them not to eat any food that is ritually unclean because it has been offered to idols; to keep themselves from sexual immorality; and not to eat any animal that has been strangled, or any 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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