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Numbers 9:11

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Numbers 9:11 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
Numbers 9:11 — American Standard Version

Context — Numbers 9

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
8And Moses said unto them, Stay ye, that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you.
9And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
10Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.
11In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
12they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
13But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
14And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, etc.] The mouth Ijar, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our April and part of May; so that there was a month allowed for those that were defiled to cleanse themselves; and for those on a journey to return home and prepare for the passover, which was not to be totally omitted, nor deferred any longer; and it was to be kept on the same day of the month, and at the same time of the day the first passover was observed; still the more to keep in mind the saving of their firstborn; and their deliverance out of Egypt at that time: an instance of keeping such a passover we have in (<143001>2 Chronicles 30:1,2), etc.…”
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Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“The 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. return to 'Top of Page'”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“fourteenth: Num 9:3; Exo 12:2-14, Exo 12:43-49; Ch2 30:2-15; Joh 19:36 and eat it: Exo 12:8 Numbers 9:12”
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