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the Week of Proper 17 / Ordinary 22
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New Century Version

Numbers 9:2

"Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the appointed 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 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 Living Translation
"Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed 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 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after the Israelites left Egypt. He said, 2 "Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the appointed time. 3 That appointed time is the fourteenth day of this month at twilight; they must obey all the rules about it." 4 So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover, 5 and they did; it was in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses. 6 But some of the people could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were unclean from touching a dead body. So they went to Moses and Aaron that day and 7 said to Moses, "We are unclean because of touching a dead body. But why should we be kept from offering gifts to the Lord at this appointed time? Why can't we join the other Israelites?" 8 Moses said to them, "Wait, and I will find out what the Lord says about you." 9 Then the Lord said to Moses, 10 "Tell the Israelites this: ‘If you or your descendants become unclean because of a dead body, or if you are away on a trip during the Passover, you must 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
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.
Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it, because blood gives life.
Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, looked at his naked father and told his brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth got a coat and, carrying it on both their shoulders, they walked backwards into the tent and covered their father. They turned their faces away so that they did not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 35:5
Then Jacob and his sons left there. But God caused the people in the nearby cities to be afraid, so they did not follow them.
Leviticus 26:6
I will give peace to your country; you will lie down in peace, and no one will make you afraid. I will keep harmful animals out of your country, and armies will not pass through it.
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will take your children away from you and destroy your cattle. They will make you so few in number the roads will be empty.

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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