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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 9:11

in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bitter Herbs;   Month;   Passover;   Strangers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bread;   Unleavened Bread;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feast of the Passover, the;   Herbs, &C;   High Priest, the;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Clean, Unclean;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bitter;   Herb;   Passover;   Sacrifice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Hezekiah;   Numbers, the Book of;   Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bitter Herbs;   Herbs, Bitter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Bitter Herbs;   Clean and Unclean;   Leviticus;   Numbers, Book of;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Last Supper;   Passover (I.);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bitter Herbs;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pass'over,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bitter Herbs;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bitter;   Bitter Herbs;   Law in the Old Testament;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Accommodation of the Law;   Commandments, the 613;   Festivals;   Hezekiah;   Law, Reading from the;   Mishnah;   Pesaḥ Sheni;   Pesaḥim;   Pilgrimage;   Priestly Code;   Sacrifice;   Seder;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with matzah and bitter herbs.
King James Version
The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Lexham English Bible
On the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they will observe it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter plants.
New Century Version
But celebrate it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. Eat the lamb with bitter herbs and bread made without yeast.
New English Translation
They may observe it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight; they are to eat it with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.
Amplified Bible
'On the fourteenth day of the second month [thirty days later] at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
New American Standard Bible
'In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall celebrate it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the fourtenth day of the second moneth at euen they shall keepe it: with vnleauened bread and sowre herbes shall they eate it.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Contemporary English Version
But it must be done in the second month, in the evening of the fourteenth day. Eat the Passover lamb with thin bread and bitter herbs,
Complete Jewish Bible
But he will observe it in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk. They are to eat it with matzah and maror,
Darby Translation
In the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the two evenings, shall they hold it; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.
Easy-to-Read Version
They must celebrate Passover just before dark on the 14th day of the second month. At that time they must eat the lamb, the bread made without yeast, and the bitter herbs.
English Standard Version
In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
George Lamsa Translation
On the fourteenth day of the second month at the evening they shall keep it, and shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Good News Translation
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.
Christian Standard Bible®
Such people are to observe it in the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight. They are to eat the animal with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Literal Translation
In the second month, on the fourteenth day at dusk, they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but in the seconde moneth vpo ye fourtene daye at euen, and they shal eate it with vnleuended bred and sowre sawse,
American Standard Version
In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
Bible in Basic English
In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The fourteenth day of the seconde moneth at euen let them kepe it: and eate it with vnleauened bread, & sowre hearbes.
King James Version (1611)
The fourteenth day of the second moneth at Euen they shall keepe it, and eat it with vnleauened bread and bitter herbes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
in the second month, on the fourteenth day; in the evening they shall offer it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.
English Revised Version
in the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
Berean Standard Bible
Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the fourtenthe dai of the monethe, at euentid; with therf looues and letusis of the feeld he schal ete it.
Young's Literal Translation
in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;
Update Bible Version
In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
Webster's Bible Translation
The fourteenth day of the second month at evening, they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].
World English Bible
In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
New King James Version
On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
New Living Translation
They must offer the Passover sacrifice one month later, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They must eat the Passover lamb at that time with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast.
New Life Bible
They will keep it in the evening of the fourteenth day of the second month. They will eat it with bread without yeast and with bitter tasting plants.
New Revised Standard
In the second month on the fourteenth day, at twilight, they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the second month, on the fourteenth day between the two evenings, shall they keep it, - with unleavened cakes and bitter herbs, shall they eat it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce:
Revised Standard Version
In the second month on the fourteenth day in the evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fourteenth: Numbers 9:3, Exodus 12:2-14, Exodus 12:43-49, 2 Chronicles 30:2-15, John 19:36

and eat it: Exodus 12:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:11 - on Deuteronomy 16:3 - eat no Deuteronomy 16:6 - at even

Cross-References

Genesis 9:21
And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9:22
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is as the waters of Noah unto Me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it,.... The mouth Ijar, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our April and part of May; so that there was a month allowed for those that were defiled to cleanse themselves; and for those on a journey to return home and prepare for the passover, which was not to be totally omitted, nor deferred any longer; and it was to be kept on the same day of the month, and at the same time of the day the first passover was observed; still the more to keep in mind the saving of their firstborn; and their deliverance out of Egypt at that time: an instance of keeping such a passover we have in 2 Chronicles 30:1, c.

[and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs] in the same manner as the first passover was eaten, Exodus 12:8; only no mention is made of keeping the feast of unleavened bread seven days, which some think those were not obliged unto at this time, only to keep the feast of the passover.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The later Jews speak of this as the “little Passover.” Coming, as it did, a month after the proper Passover, it afforded ample time for a man to purify himself from legal defilement, as also to return from any but a very distant journey. Compare Hezekiah’s act 2 Chronicles 30:1-3.


 
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