Numeri 9:13

Listen to Numeri 9:13
13 Ma colui ch’è puro e che non è in viaggio, se s’astiene dal celebrare la pasqua, quel tale sarà sterminato di fra il suo popolo; siccome non ha presentato l’offerta all’Eterno nel tempo stabilito, quel tale porterà la pena del suo peccato.

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 La celebreranno il quattordicesimo giorno del secondo mese, sull’imbrunire; la mangeranno con del pane senza lievito e con delle erbe amare;
12 non ne lasceranno nulla di resto fino al mattino, e non ne spezzeranno alcun osso. La celebreranno secondo tutte le leggi della pasqua.
13 Ma colui ch’è puro e che non è in viaggio, se s’astiene dal celebrare la pasqua, quel tale sarà sterminato di fra il suo popolo; siccome non ha presentato l’offerta all’Eterno nel tempo stabilito, quel tale porterà la pena del suo peccato.
14 E se uno straniero che soggiorna tra voi celebra la pasqua dell’Eterno, si conformerà alle leggi e alle prescrizioni della pasqua. Avrete un’unica legge, per lo straniero e per il nativo del paese".
15 Or il giorno in cui il tabernacolo fu eretto, la nuvola coprì il tabernacolo, la tenda della testimonianza; e, dalla sera fino alla mattina, aveva sul tabernacolo l’apparenza d’un fuoco.
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