Numbers 9:11 BSB — MannaFest

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;

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:

KJV

The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

⋯

Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The later Jews speak of this as the “little Passover.” Coming, as it did, a month after the proper Passover, it afforded ample time for a man to purify himself from legal defilement, as also to return from any but a very distant journey. Compare Hezekiah’s act 2Ch 30:1-3.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This secondary passover was to be kept on the same day of the month with the first, because the ordinance was a memorial of their deliverance on that day of the month.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2407: “Feeding on a Whole Christ” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1895)

IN great tenderness God permitted the Passover to be kept a second time, that those who had unavoidably been defiled at the first observance might not be shut out from the memorable and symbolical rite. But, although He altered the date of the Passover, He never changed the form of it—the Paschal feast was to be the same whenever it was celebrated and by whomever it was observed. Whether one family, or an Israelite who happened to be a stranger and visitor in the house, whoever it might be—kept the Passover—the same regulations were to be carefully followed.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Hebraic traditional view

The make-up Passover

This passage creates something rare in the Law: a second chance at a feast. Anyone unclean or far away at Passover could keep it exactly one month later, on the 14th of the second month. Jewish tradition calls it Pesach Sheni, “Second Passover,” and it is still marked lightly today (some eat a piece of matzah on the day). Israel's kings used the provision at national scale: Hezekiah's great Passover was held in the second month on exactly this ground (2 Chronicles 30).

Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 9:1 (who keeps the Second Passover) · 2 Chronicles 30 (the provision used nationally)

Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ	ba.Cho.desh	in the month	H2320 →
הַשֵּׁנִ֜י	ha.she.Ni	<the> second	H8145 →
בְּאַרְבָּעָ֨ה	be.'ar.ba.'Ah	on [the] four-	H702 →
עָשָׂ֥ר	'a.Sar	teen	H6240 →
י֛וֹם	Yom	day	H3117 →
בֵּ֥ין	bein	between	H996 →
הָעַרְבַּ֖יִם	ha.'ar.Ba.yim	the evenings	H6153 →
יַעֲשׂ֣וּ	ya.'a.Su	they will observe	H6213 →
אֹת֑וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> it	H853 →
עַל־	'al-	with	H5921 →
מַצּ֥וֹת	ma.Tzot	unleavened bread<s>	H4682 →
וּמְרֹרִ֖ים	u.me.ro.Rim	and bitter herbs	H4844 →
יֹאכְלֻֽהוּ׃	yo.khe.Lu.hu	they will eat it	H398 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 19:36
Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
leads to
- Psalms 34:20
  He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
- Numbers 9:12
  they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
- Exodus 12:46
  It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
- John 19:28
  After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
- Psalms 22:14
  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Through
Deuteronomy 16:3
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you…
leads to
- Exodus 12:39
  Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had…
- Exodus 34:18
  You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the…
- Exodus 12:19–20
  For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation…

Featured studies on this passage

Walks through Numbers 9

Passover

The night a lamb's blood turned judgment aside — and the Lamb it was always drawing toward.

Open the study →

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers: the study guide →Read chapter 9 →The featured study →

Continue: Numbers 9 →

01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

The make-up Passover

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Numbers

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Numbers