Numeri 9:13

13 Ma, se alcuno è netto, e non è in viaggio, e pur si rimane di far la Pasqua; sia una tal persona ricisa da’ suoi popoli; porti quell’uomo il suo peccato; perciocchè non ha offerta nella sua stagione l’offerta del Signore.

Numeri 9:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 9:13

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 of ( Numbers 9:10 ) ; is a wrong one; "or in a way afar off in your nation"; for at whatsoever distance they were in their own nation, they were bound to appear:

and forbeareth to keep the passover;
the first passover in the first month, the month Nisan, wilfully, through negligence, or not caring to be at the expense and trouble of it, or on any pretence whatsoever: Ben Gersom interprets it of one that will not keep neither the first nor the second passover:

even the same soul shall be cut off from his people;
either be excommunicated from them, or cut off by death by the immediate hand of God:

because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed
season:
this is the ground and reason of the resentment; it was a breach of the divine command, which required this offering; ingratitude to God, being a thank offering for a singular deliverance; and this aggravated by its not being brought at the appointed time, which was the fit ti me for it:

that man shall bear his sin;
be chargeable with the guilt of it, and bear the punishment of it; he on himself, as Aben Ezra notes, he, and he only; not his wife and family, for he being the head and master of the family, it lay upon him to provide the passover lamb for himself and his house.

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Numeri 9:13 In-Context

11 Faccianla nel quartodecimo giorno del secondo mese, fra’ due vespri; manginla con azzimi e con lattughe salvatiche.
12 Non lascinne nulla di resto fino alla mattina; e non ne rompano osso alcuno; faccianla secondo tutti gli statuti della Pasqua.
13 Ma, se alcuno è netto, e non è in viaggio, e pur si rimane di far la Pasqua; sia una tal persona ricisa da’ suoi popoli; porti quell’uomo il suo peccato; perciocchè non ha offerta nella sua stagione l’offerta del Signore.
14 E quando alcuno straniere, dimorando con voi, farà la Pasqua del Signore, facciala secondo gli statuti e gli ordini di essa; siavi un medesimo statuto fra voi; così per lo forestiere, come per colui che è natio del paese.
15 OR nel giorno che il Tabernacolo fu rizzato, la nuvola coperse il Tabernacolo, di sopra il Padiglione della Testimonianza; e in su la sera era sopra il Tabernacolo in apparenza di fuoco, fino alla mattina.
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