Joshua 5:10
in Joshua 5On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
KJV
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
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This verse in Joshua 5
Commentary
8 notes on this verseKept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month - If the ceremony of circumcision was performed on the eleventh day of the month, as many think; and if the sore was at the worst on the thirteenth, and the passover was celebrated on the fourteenth, the people being then quite recovered; it must have been rather a miraculous than a natural healing. We have already seen from the account of Sir J.
This site's exposition
they kept the Passover
on Joshua 5:10-11
This is the third Passover Scripture records after the first, following Numbers 9:5 at Sinai, and the first kept inside the land. The date is the evening of the fourteenth, as Exodus 12:6 set it, and the circumcision made it lawful, since Exodus 12:48 bars the uncircumcised.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
For not before circumcision were they able to celebrate a Passover; nor immediately after circumcision, before they were healed, were they able to eat the flesh of the lamb. But after they were healed it is said that "the sons of Israel celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month." You see, therefore, that no one unclean celebrates Passover, no one uncircumcised, but whoever has been cleansed and circumcised, just as the apostle also interprets, saying, "For indeed Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast day, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
A commentator
Origen of AlexandriaCOMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 6.233-35 · Written before 253.
proposed
After they observed the Passover in Egypt, they began the exodus. In the book of Joshua, however, after the crossing of the Jordan, on the tenth day of the first month they encamped in Gilgal.…Then the sons of Israel observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month much more cheerfully than the one in Egypt, seeing that they also "ate unleavened bread and fresh from the grain of the holy land," a food better than the manna.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The passover - Which was their third passover: the first was in Egypt, Exod. xii, 11-24, the second at Mount Sinai, Num. ix, 1-5, the third here; for in their wilderness travels, these and all other sacrifices were neglected, Amos v, 25.
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal,....
Now that they had entered into Canaan it was very seasonable to remember those wondrous works of divine power and goodness by which they were brought out of Egypt. The finishing of mercies should bring to mind the beginning of them; and when it is perfect day we must not forget how welcome the morning-light was when we had long waited for it.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even--The time fixed by the law (see on Ex 12:17; Thus the national existence was commenced by a solemn act of religious dedication.
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How the passage was read
On Joshua 5:10-12On Joshua 5:10-12
The first Passover in the land
Forty years after Egypt, the first thing Israel does on the west side of the Jordan is keep Passover: the feast commanded for “when you come into the land” (Exodus 12:25). The next morning they eat the land's own grain, and the manna stops the same day. The feast marks the seam between the wilderness and the inheritance: the bread from heaven gives way to bread from the promised soil.
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
From the day after the Pesach. This was the day of waving the Omer, for they sacrificed the Omer first. 11 They could not have eaten from the new grain of Eretz Yisroel until after they brought the Omer sacrifice. See Vayikroh:14.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: Exodus 12:25 (the command for the land) · Manna (this site's study)
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּחֲנ֥וּ | vaiyachanu | and they encamped | H2583 → | 143 times |
| בְנֵֽי־ | venei- | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| בַּגִּלְגָּ֑ל | bagilgal | at <the> Gilgal | H1537 → | 41 times |
| וַיַּעֲשׂ֣וּ | vaiyaasu | and they observed | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַפֶּ֡סַח | hapesach | the passover | H6453 → | |
| בְּאַרְבָּעָה֩ | bearbaah | on [the] four- | H702 → | 318 times |
| עָשָׂ֨ר | ʾasar | teen | H6240 → | 338 times |
| י֥וֹם | yom | day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| לַחֹ֛דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | |
| בָּעֶ֖רֶב | baerev | in the evening | H6153 → | 134 times |
| בְּעַֽרְב֥וֹת | bearvot | on [the] plains of | H6160 → | 61 times |
| יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ | yericho | Jericho | H3405 → | 57 times |
וַיַּחֲנ֥וּand they encamped
vaiyachanuH2583 →143 times
בְנֵֽי־[the] people of
venei-H1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
בַּגִּלְגָּ֑לat <the> Gilgal
bagilgalH1537 →41 times
וַיַּעֲשׂ֣וּand they observed
vaiyaasuH6213 →2628 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַפֶּ֡סַחthe passover
hapesachH6453 →
בְּאַרְבָּעָה֩on [the] four-
bearbaahH702 →318 times
עָשָׂ֨רteen
ʾasarH6240 →338 times
י֥וֹםday
yomH3117 →2304 times
לַחֹ֛דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →
בָּעֶ֖רֶבin the evening
baerevH6153 →134 times
בְּעַֽרְב֥וֹתon [the] plains of
bearvotH6160 →61 times
יְרִיחֽוֹ׃Jericho
yerichoH3405 →57 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
it leads to
- Leviticus 23:5
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15–18
And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
- Numbers 28:16
The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Exodus 12:18
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- Numbers 9:11
Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
- Leviticus 23:5
Through
Ezekiel 12:3Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. In broad daylight, set out from your place and go to another as they watch. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 36:3
Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their…
- Jeremiah 26:3
Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
- 2 Timothy 2:25
He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
- Jeremiah 36:3
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PlaceJordan valley near JerichoGilgalIsrael's first Canaan camp where the stones were set and the reproach rolled away (Josh 4-5); later a corrupted shrine the prophet…
- PlaceJordan valleyJerichoThe city of palms whose walls fell flat at the seventh trumpet-circuit; Rahab's city, later rebuilt under a curse, and the road do…
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 6.1 and Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 6.233-35.