Numbers 9:3

Numbers 9:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
• New International Version (NIV)Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it."
• New King James Version (NKJV)On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.”

Context of Numbers 9:3

1And Yhwh spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. 5And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Yhwh commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Numbers 9:3 word by word

בְּאַרְבָּעָ֣ה עָשָֽׂר־י֠וֹם בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֜ה בֵּ֧ין הָֽעֲרְבַּ֛יִם תַּעֲשׂ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ בְּמוֹעֲד֑וֹ כְּכָל־חֻקֹּתָ֥יו וּכְכָל־מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו תַּעֲשׂ֥וּ אֹתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

• In the fourteenthעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
• In the fourteenthאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of this monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• at evenעֶ֫רֶב‛ereb · eveningH6153
• ye shall keepעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• it in his appointed seasonמוֹעֵדmô‛êd mô‛êd mô‛âdâh · meeting: time appointedH4150
• according to all the ritesחֻקָּהchûqqâh · statuteH2708
• of it, and according to all the ceremoniesמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941

Cross-references for Numbers 9:3

• 2 Chronicles 30:2For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
• Exodus 12:6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
• Hebrews 9:26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the age hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
• Numbers 9:11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• Exodus 12:7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

Commentaries on Numbers 9:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3According to all the rites of it - See all those rites and ceremonies largely explained in the notes on Exodus 12 (note).Read the comment
• 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 9:3

• Israel
• Passover
• Sanitation
• Sinai

In the dictionaries

• Appearance
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• Sinai
• Apocrypha
• Chronicles, Books of
• Evenings, Between the
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genealogy
• Hittites
• Law in the Old Testament

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