Numbers 9:11

Numbers 9:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• New International Version (NIV)but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• English Standard Version (ESV)In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• New King James Version (NKJV)On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Context of Numbers 9:11

9Then the Lord said to Moses, 10‘Say to the Israelites, “Anyone among you or your descendants may become not clean because of a dead body. Or they may be away because they are travelling. They can still eat the Passover meal to thank the Lord. They must eat it during the evening of the 14th day of the second month. They must eat it when it starts to become dark. They must eat it with bread and with bitter herbs. The bread must not have yeast in it. 12They must not keep any of the food until the next morning. And they must not break any of the bones of the lamb. And they must obey all the rules about the Passover. 13But perhaps a clean person who is at home chooses not to eat the Passover meal. You must make that person separate from his people. That is because he did not offer the proper sacrifices to the Lord at the proper time. So that person must receive the punishment for his sin.

Numbers 9:11 word by word

בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִ֜י בְּאַרְבָּעָ֨ה עָשָׂ֥ר י֛וֹם בֵּ֥ין הָעַרְבַּ֖יִם יַעֲשׂ֣וּ אֹת֑וֹ עַל־מַצּ֥וֹת וּמְרֹרִ֖ים יֹאכְלֻֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The fourteenthעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
• The fourteenthאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of the secondשֵׁנִיshênîy · secondH8145
• monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• at evenעֶ֫רֶב‛ereb · eveningH6153
• they shall keepעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• it with unleavened breadמַצָּהmatstsâh · unleavened breadH4682
• and bitterמָרֹרmerôr merôr · bitternessH4844

Cross-references for Numbers 9:11

• Numbers 9:3The proper time is during the evening of the 14th day of this month. It is when it starts to become dark. That is when you must eat it. You must obey all its rules and its laws.’
• Exodus 12:2He said, ‘This month will be the first month of each year for you.
• 2 Chronicles 30:2The king, his officers and all the people who lived in Jerusalem decided to have the Passover festival in the second month.
• John 19:36The Bible already said how it would happen. It says: ‘Nobody will break any of his bones.’
• Exodus 12:8That night, they must cook the meat over the fire. They must eat it immediately, with bitter herbs and with bread that has no yeast in it.

Commentaries on Numbers 9:11

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11The 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-14God's solution to the problem was to allow a makeup ceremony one month later for two special cases (see also 2 Chronicles 30). Yet, he warned the Israelites not to neglect the Passover and to celebrate it according to the rules.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-148-14. Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you--A solution of the difficulty was soon obtained, it being enacted, by divine authority, that to those who might be disqualified by the occurrence of a death in their family circle or unable by distance to keep the passover on the anniversary day, a special license was granted of observing it by themselves on the same day and hour of the following month…Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 9:11

• Bitter Herbs
• Month
• Passover
• Strangers

In the dictionaries

• Bitter Herbs
• unleavened bread
• Appearance
• Bitter
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• Passover
• Sacrifice
• Sinai
• Apocrypha
• Bitter; Bitterness

Commentaries on Numbers 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings