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

9The Lord spoke to Moses: 10“Tell the Israelites, ‘If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the Lord. 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. 12They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover. 13But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear 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 9:3In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs.”
• Exodus 12:2“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.
• 2 Chronicles 30:2The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.
• John 19:36For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”
• Exodus 12:8They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

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
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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