Numbers 9:2

Numbers 9:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
• New International Version (NIV)“Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

Context of Numbers 9:2

1Thus 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, “Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time. 3On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.” 4So Moses told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.

Numbers 9:2 word by word

וְיַעֲשׂ֧וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת־הַפָּ֖סַח בְּמוֹעֲדֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

• Now, let the sonsבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• observeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• the Passoverפֶּ֫סַחpesach · PassoverH6453
• its appointedמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: time appointedH4150
• timeמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: time appointedH4150

Cross-references for Numbers 9:2

• Exodus 12:1Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
• Numbers 28:16‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Lord’s Passover.
• Exodus 12:6You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.
• Leviticus 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.
• Deuteronomy 16:1“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
• Joshua 5:10While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.
• 2 Chronicles 35:1Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.
• Ezra 6:19The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.
• Mark 14:12On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
• Luke 22:7Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
• 1 Corinthians 5:7Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Commentaries on Numbers 9:2

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-5Verses 1-5 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3God told the Hebrews to celebrate Passover at the set time (see Exodus 12:6). at twilight: The Hebrew day starts at sunset.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-52-5. Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season, &c.--The date of this command to keep the passover in the wilderness was given shortly after the erection and consecration of the tabernacle and preceded the numbering of the people by a month. (Compare Nu 9:1 with Nu 1:1, 2). But it is narrated after that transaction in order to introduce the notice of a particular case, for which a law was provided to meet the occasion. This…Read the comment

Topics related to Numbers 9:2

• Israel
• Passover
• Sanitation
• Sinai

In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Children of Israel
• Appearance
• Sacrifice
• Sinai
• Apocrypha
• Chronicles, Books of
• Exodus, the Book of

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