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.