Numbers 9:9-19

9 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

10 "Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.

11 ¹In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. ²They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12 ³They shall leave none of it until the morning, ⁴nor break any of its bones; ⁵according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.

13 But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, ⁶that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's ⁷offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

14 And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. ⁸You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native."

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

15 ⁹On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And ¹⁰at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

16 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day^[a] and the appearance of fire by night.

17 And whenever the cloud ¹¹lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.

18 At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. ¹²As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

19 Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel ¹³kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.

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Numbers 9:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 9

In this chapter the command for keeping the passover is repeated, and it was accordingly kept, Nu 9:1-5; but some persons being defiled and disqualified for observing it, Moses inquires of the Lord, on their solicitation, what should be done in such a case, Nu 9:6-8; when it was ordered to be kept by such, and those on journeys, on the fourteenth day of the second month, but not by others, who were to observe it according to its first appointment, Nu 9:9-14; and an account is given of the appearance of the cloud by day, and fire by night, upon the tabernacle, which directed the children of Israel when to journey, and when to pitch their tents, Nu 9:15-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. See Exodus 12:6; 2 Chronicles 30:2-15
2. Exodus 12:8; [Deuteronomy 16:3]
3. Exodus 12:10
4. Exodus 12:46; Cited John 19:36
5. Exodus 12:43, 49
6. Exodus 12:15; [Genesis 17:14]
7. ver. 7
8. Exodus 12:48, 49
9. Exodus 40:17, 34
10. See Exodus 13:21
11. Numbers 10:11, 33, 34; Exodus 40:36
12. [1 Corinthians 10:1]
13. See Numbers 1:53

Footnotes 1

[a]. Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks by day

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