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

9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover to the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at evening they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs . 12They shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. 13But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall 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

• fourteenthאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702
• fourteenthעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• secondשֵׁנִיshênîy · secondH8145
• monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• eveningעֶ֫רֶב‛ereb · eveningH6153
• keepעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• breadמַצָּהmatstsâh · unleavened breadH4682
• bitterמָרֹרmerôr merôr · bitternessH4844

Cross-references for Numbers 9:11

• Numbers 9:3In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all its rites, and according to all its ceremonies, shall ye keep it.
• Exodus 12:2This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
• 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.
• John 19:36For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
• Exodus 12:8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat 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
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• 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