The Passover Celebrated

Numbers 9

1 Now 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: 2 "Let the children of Israel keep a the Passover at its appointed b time. 3 "On the fourteenth day of this month, 1 at twilight, you shall 2 keep it at its appointed time. According to all its 3 rites and ceremonies you shall keep it." 4 So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. 5 And c they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. 6 Now there were certain men who were d defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; e and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. 7 And those men said to him, "We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?" 8 And Moses said to them, "Stand still, that f I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If anyone of you or your 4 posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD's Passover. 11 'On g the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall h eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 i 'They shall leave none of it until morning, j nor break one of its bones. k According to all the 5 ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it. 13 'But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person l shall be cut off from among his people, because he m did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall n bear his sin. 14 'And if a stranger 6 dwells among you, and would keep the LORD's Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; o you shall have one 7 ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.' "

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 12:1 - 16
    Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying.
    Leviticus 23:5
    On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passover.
    Numbers 28:16
    On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the LORD.
    Deuteronomy 16:1
    Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
    Deuteronomy 16:2
    Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name.
  2. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 30:1 - 15
    And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the LORD God of Israel.
    Luke 22:7
    Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed.
    1 Corinthians 5:7
    Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
    1 Corinthians 5:8
    Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
  3. Cross References
    Joshua 5:10
    Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 5:2
    Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.
    Numbers 19:11 - 22
    He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days.
    John 18:28
    Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 18:15
    And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
    Exodus 18:19
    Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you: Stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God.
    Exodus 18:26
    So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.
    Numbers 27:2
    And they stood before Moses, before Eleazar the priest, and before the leaders and all the congregation, by the doorway of the tabernacle of meeting, saying:
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 18:22
    And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.
    Numbers 27:5
    So Moses brought their case before the LORD.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 30:2
    For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month.
    2 Chronicles 30:15
    Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 12:8
    Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 12:10
    You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
  10. Cross References
    Exodus 12:46
    In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.
    John 19:36
    For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be broken.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 12:43
    And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 17:14
    "And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."
    Exodus 12:15
    Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
    Exodus 12:47
    All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
  13. Cross References
    Numbers 9:7
    And those men said to him, "We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?
  14. Cross References
    Numbers 5:31
    'Then the man shall be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her guilt.'"
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 12:49
    "One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you."
    Leviticus 24:22
    'You shall have the same law for the stranger and for one from your own country; for I am the LORD your God.'"
    Numbers 15:15
    One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
    Numbers 15:16
    'One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.'"
    Numbers 15:29
    You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.
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