Numbers 9:4

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4 So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep 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 keep the passover at its appointed time.

3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its regulations you shall keep it.

4 So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep the passover.

5 They kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

6 Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day,

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