Numbers 9:3

3 Celebrate it on schedule, on the evening of the fourteenth day of this month, following all the rules and procedures."

Numbers 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 9:3

In the fourteenth day of this month
The first month, the month Nisan or Abib, answering to part of our March: at even ye shall keep it, in his appointed season:
between the two evenings, ( Exodus 12:6 ) ; and even if it fall on the sabbath day, as Jarchi; and this was a sabbath day, according to the Jewish writers ^F25: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies
thereof shall ye keep it;
the former of these, according to Jarchi, respects the lamb, and the requisites of it, that it should be without blemish, a male, and of the first year; and the latter, according to him and others, the removal of the leaven, and the seven days of unleavened bread, and the eating of the lamb with bitter herbs: they take in no doubt all that were prescribed by the original law, except the sprinkling of the blood on the doorposts, and also eating the passover in haste, with their loins girt, and shoes on their feet, and staves in their hands; though some think these latter might be observed at this time, when they were unsettled.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Seder Olam Rabba. c. 7.

Numbers 9:3 In-Context

1 God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after leaving Egypt:

2 "Have the People of Israel celebrate Passover at the set time.

3 Celebrate it on schedule, on the evening of the fourteenth day of this month, following all the rules and procedures."

4 Moses told the People of Israel to celebrate the Passover

5 and they did - in the Wilderness of Sinai at evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. The People of Israel did it all just as God had commanded Moses.