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Selected Verse: Numbers 9:8 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 9:8 |
King James |
And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you--A solution of the difficulty was soon obtained, it being enacted, by divine authority, that to those who might be disqualified by the occurrence of a death in their family circle or unable by distance to keep the passover on the anniversary day, a special license was granted of observing it by themselves on the same day and hour of the following month, under a due attendance to all the solemn formalities. (See on Ch2 30:2). But the observance was imperative on all who did not labor under these impediments. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Moses told them to wait (stand), and he would hear what the Lord, of whom he would inquire, would command. |
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.