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New American Standard Bible

Numbers 9:4

So Moses told the sons of Israel to celebrate 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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, to celebrate the Passeouer.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the passover.
Hebrew Names Version
Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el, that they should keep the Pesach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amplified Bible
So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover.
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,
Lexham English Bible
So Moses spoke to the Israelites to observe the Passover.
Literal Translation
And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare 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.
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.
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.
Good News Translation
So Moses told the people to observe the Passover,
King James Version
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Darby Translation
And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should hold 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,
World English Bible
Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep 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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses spake vnto the children of Israel, that they should celebrate the Passouer.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses spake to ye childre of Israel, yt they shulde kepe Easter.
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 Revised Standard
So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep the passover.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.

Contextual Overview

1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "Now the sons of Israel are to celebrate the Passover at its appointed time. 3 "On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall celebrate it at its appointed time; you shall celebrate it in accordance with all its statutes and all its ordinances." 4 So Moses told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.5 And they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with everything that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did. 6 But there were some men who were unclean because of contact with a dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7 Those men said to him, "Though we are unclean because of a dead person, why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?" 8 Moses then said to them, "Wait, and I will listen to what the LORD will command concerning you." 9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover to the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth.
Genesis 9:14
"It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
Leviticus 3:17
'It is a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.'"
Leviticus 7:26
'And you are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26
'You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.
Deuteronomy 12:16
"Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23
"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 14:21
"You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the stranger who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a stranger; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 15:23
"Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.
Acts 15:20
but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols, from acts of sexual immorality, from what has been 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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