Numbers 9:12 (BSB)
they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
From Numbers 9. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 9:12
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 9:1-14: Here we have, I. An order given for the solemnization of the passover, the day twelvemonth after they came out of Egypt, on the fourteenth day of the first month of the second year, some days before they were numbered, for that was done in the beginning of the second month. Observe, 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 9:12: But the man that is clean,.... Free from any pollution by a dead body, or the like: and is not in a journey; in a distant country; for if he was on a journey in his own nation, he ought to return and attend the passover, which all the males from the several parts of the land were obliged unto; wherefore the Vulgate Latin version...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 9:6-14: A SECOND PASSOVER ALLOWED. (Num 9:6-14) there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man--To discharge the last offices to the remains of deceased relatives was imperative; and yet attendance on a funeral entailed ceremonial defilement, which led to exclusion from all society and from the camp for seven days.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 9:9-14: Num 9:9-14 Jehovah gave these general instructions: “Every one who is defiled by a corpse or upon a distantjourney, of you and your future families, shall keep the Passover in the second month on the fourteenth, between the two evenings,” and that in all respects according to the statute of this feast, the three leading points of which - viz., eating the lamb with unleavened...