Numbers 9:1

_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI, IN THE FIRST MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR AFTER THEY WERE COME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....

1._And the Lord spake unto Moses. _We may infer how great was the carelessness, nay, even the ingratitude of the people, from the fact that God recalls to their recollection the celebration of the passover, before a year had elapsed. For what would they do fifty years hence, if there was any danger of their falling into forgetfulness of it in so short a time? If they had been voluntarily assiduous in their duty, it would have been unnecessary to repeat what had been so severely enjoined even with threats. But now God, as the year came to a close, reminds them that the day approaches on which He had fixed the passover to be held; that the Israelites might more surely learn that this solemn sacrifice is of yearly recurrence, and thus that it was sinful to omit it. He then commands that all the ceremonies should be diligently observed, and that they should not corrupt the pure institution w...

1-14 God gave particular orders for the keeping of this passover, and, for aught that appears, after this, they kept no passover till they came to Canaan, Joshua 5:10. It early showed that the ceremonial institutions were not to continue always, as so soon after they were appointed, some were suffered to sleep for many years. But the ordinance of the Lord's Supper was not thus set aside in the first days of the Christian church, although those were days of greater difficulty and distress than Israel knew in the wilderness; nay, in the times of persecution, the Lord's Supper was celebrated more frequently than afterward. Israelites in the wilderness could not forget the deliverance out of Egypt. There was danger of this when they came to Canaan. Instructions were given concerning those who were ceremonially unclean, when they were to eat the passover. Those whose minds and consciences ar...

CHAPTER IX _The Israelites are reminded of the law that required them to_ _keep the passover at its proper time, and with all its rites_, 1-3. _They kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first_ _month_, 4, 5. _The case of the men who, being unclean through touching a dead_ _body, could not keep the passover_, 6, 7. _Moses inquires at the Lord concerning them_, 8; _and the Lord appoints the fourteenth day of the second month_ _for all those who through any accidental uncleanness, or by_...

Passover at Sinai. This, as being kept in the first month, was prior in time to the numbering of Numbers 1:1 ff, and to the other events narrated in this book. It is, however, recorded here as introductory to the ordinance of Numbers 9:6 in this chapter respecting the supplementary Passover; the observance of which was one of the last occurrences during the halt at Sinai. Numbers 9:5 In some details, the present Passover differed both from that kept at the Exodus itself and from all subsequent Passovers. For example, the direction of Exodus 12:22 could not be carried out in the letter

EXPOSITION THE PASSOVER AT SINAI (Numbers 9:1). NUMBERS 9:1 IN THE FIRST MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR. Before the census, and all the other events recorded in this hook, except in part the offerings of the princes (see Numbers 7:1). There was, however, an obvious reason for mentioning together the two passovers, the second of which immediately preceded the departure from Sinai. NUMBERS 9:2 LET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ALSO KEEP THE PASSOVER AT HIS APPOINTED SEASON. Septuagint, ποιείτωσαν

AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI,.... While the people of Israel were encamped there, before they took their journey from thence: IN THE FIRST MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR, AFTER THEY WERE COME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT: the following order was given some time in the first month of the second year of Israel's departure out of Egypt; the precise day is not mentioned, it must be in the beginning of the month before the fourteenth day of it, in which the passover is ordered to be kept, according to the first institution of it; very probably immediately after the setting up of the tabernacle, and the consecration of Aaron and his sons; and it must be before the numbering of the people the fixing of their standards, the appointment of the Levites, and the dedication of them; since the order for the numbering of the people was on the first day of the second month, Num

Numbers 9:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season._ I should almost fear that they had omitted the keeping of the passover for a year. There was a first celebration of it when they came out of Egypt; but then it was not so much a type as a matter of fact; it was the thing itself, not the remembrance of the coming out of Egypt, but the actual coming out, the exodus. One would gather from this command of the Lord that, on the first anniversary of that memorable season, the children of Israel had omitted its observance, and hence Jehovah said to Moses, «Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.» If this conjecture is correct, it is very significant that a rite which be

FIRST MONTH That is, April; also (Numbers 9:5)....

7. PASSOVER AND JEHOVAH WITH HIS PEOPLE CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The command to keep the Passover (Numbers 9:1)_ 2. The Passover kept (Numbers 9:4) 3. Provision in case of defilement (Numbers 9:6) 4. Jehovah with His people (Numbers 9:15) Jehovah next commands His people to keep the feast of redemption, Passover. And they obeyed at once. The first Passover was held in Egypt, the second in the wilderness at Sinai, with their faces turned towards the land of promise, and it was next celebrated in the land of Canaan. This shows how essential the blood is for everything. The blood delivers out of Egypt, it keeps in