Numbers 9:4

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4 So Moses spoke to the {Israelites} to observe the Passover.

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Numbers 9:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 9:4

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
keep the passover.
] The time now drawing nigh for the observation of it, it being now almost a year since their coming out of Egypt.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Numbers 9:4 In-Context

2 "Let the {Israelites} observe the Passover at its appointed time.

3 On the fourteenth day of this month {at twilight} you will perform it at its appointed time according to all its decrees; and according to all its stipulations you will observe it."

4 So Moses spoke to the {Israelites} to observe the Passover.

5 And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month {at twilight} in the desert of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, thus the {Israelites} did.

6 And it happened, men who were unclean {by a dead person} were not able to perform the Passover on that day. And they came {before} Moses and Aaron on that day.