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Text -- Numbers 9:1-23 (NET)
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Passover Regulations
9:1 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 :
9:2 “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time .
9:3 In 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 .”
9:4 So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover .
9:5 And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai ; in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses , so the Israelites did .
9:6 It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day , so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day .
9:7 And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man ; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites ?”
9:8 So Moses said to them, “Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”
9:9 The Lord spoke to Moses :
9:10 “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 .
9:11 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 .
9:12 They 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 .
9:13 But 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 .
9:14 If a resident foreigner lives among you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord , he must do so according to the statute of the Passover , and according to its custom . You must have the same statute for the resident foreigner and for the one who was born in the land .’”
The Leading of the Lord
9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was set up , the cloud covered the tabernacle – the tent of the testimony – and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle .
9:16 This is the way it used to be continually : The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night .
9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle , then after that the Israelites would begin their journey ; and in whatever place the cloud settled , there the Israelites would make camp .
9:18 At the commandment of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey , and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp ; as long as the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp .
9:19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days , then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the Lord and did not journey .
9:20 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days , they remained camped according to the Lord’s commandment , and according to the Lord’s commandment they would journey .
9:21 And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning , when the cloud was taken up the following morning , then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night , when the cloud was taken up they traveled .
9:22 Whether it was for two days , or a month , or a year , that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle , the Israelites remained camped without traveling ; but when it was taken up , they traveled on .
9:23 At the commandment of the Lord they camped , and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the Lord according to the commandment of the Lord , by the authority of Moses .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Passover |
Cloud |
NUMBERS, BOOK OF |
MOSES |
Sacrifice |
TABERNACLE |
Fire |
God |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
Uncleaess |
Sinai |
Israel |
Sanitation |
WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL |
Prophets |
Dead Body |
Obedience |
Month |
Ordinance |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
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NET Notes -> Num 9:1; Num 9:1; Num 9:2; Num 9:2; Num 9:2; Num 9:3; Num 9:3; Num 9:3; Num 9:4; Num 9:4; Num 9:5; Num 9:6; Num 9:6; Num 9:6; Num 9:6; Num 9:8; Num 9:8; Num 9:10; Num 9:10; Num 9:11; Num 9:13; Num 9:13; Num 9:13; Num 9:13; Num 9:14; Num 9:14; Num 9:14; Num 9:14; Num 9:14; Num 9:15; Num 9:15; Num 9:15; Num 9:15; Num 9:15; Num 9:15; Num 9:15; Num 9:16; Num 9:17; Num 9:17; Num 9:18; Num 9:18; Num 9:19; Num 9:20; Num 9:20; Num 9:20; Num 9:21; Num 9:21; Num 9:21; Num 9:22; Num 9:22; Num 9:22; Num 9:23
NET Notes: Num 9:1 The temporal clause is formed with the infinitive construct of יָצָא (yatsa’, “to go out; to leave”). ...
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NET Notes: Num 9:2 The Greek text uses a plural here but the singular in vv. 7 and 13; the Smr uses the plural in all three places.
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NET Notes: Num 9:3 The two words in this last section are standard “Torah” words. The word חֹק (khoq) is a binding statute, something engra...
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NET Notes: Num 9:4 The infinitive construct functions as the direct object of the preceding verb (a Hebrew complementary usage), answering the question of what he said.
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NET Notes: Num 9:6 This clause begins with the vav (ו) conjunction and negative before the perfect tense. Here is the main verb of the sentence: They were not able...
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NET Notes: Num 9:8 The cohortative may be subordinated to the imperative: “stand…[that I] may hear.”
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NET Notes: Num 9:10 The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive functions as the equivalent of an imperfect tense. In the apodosis of this conditional sentence, the ...
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NET Notes: Num 9:11 The delay of four weeks for such people would have permitted enough time for them to return from their journey, or to recover from any short termed de...
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NET Notes: Num 9:13 The word for “sin” here should be interpreted to mean the consequences of his sin (so a metonymy of effect). Whoever willingly violates th...
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NET Notes: Num 9:14 The conjunction is used here to specify the application of the law: “and for the resident foreigner, and for the one…” indicates ...
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NET Notes: Num 9:16 The MT lacks the words “by day,” but a number of ancient versions have this reading (e.g., Greek, Syriac, Tg. Ps.-J., Latin Vulgate).
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NET Notes: Num 9:17 Heb “in the place where it settled there”; the relative clause modifies the noun “place,” and the resumptive adverb completes ...
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NET Notes: Num 9:18 Heb “all the days of – that the cloud settled over the tabernacle.” “All” is the adverbial accusative of time telling ho...
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NET Notes: Num 9:19 This is the same Hebrew expression that was used earlier for the Levites “keeping their charge” or more clearly, “fulfilling their o...
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NET Notes: Num 9:21 The construction in this half of the verse uses two vav (ו) consecutive clauses. The first is subordinated to the second as a temporal clause: &...
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NET Notes: Num 9:22 Heb “and they would not journey”; the clause can be taken adverbially, explaining the preceding verbal clause.
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