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Verse	Translation	Text
Nu 9:2	Strong Concordance	Let the children [01121] of Israel [03478] also keep [06213] the passover [06453] at his appointed season [04150].
	King James	Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

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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]
THE PASSOVER ENJOINED. (Num 9:1-5) Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season, &c.--The date of this command to keep the passover in the wilderness was given shortly after the erection and consecration of the tabernacle and preceded the numbering of the people by a month. (Compare Num 9:1 with Num 1:1-2). But it is narrated after that transaction in order to introduce the notice of a particular case, for which a law was provided to meet the occasion. This was the first observance of the passover since the exodus; and without a positive injunction, the Israelites were under no obligation to keep it till their settlement in the land of Canaan (Exo 12:25). The anniversary was kept on the exact day of the year on which they, twelve months before, had departed from Egypt; and it was marked by all the peculiar rites--the he lamb and the unleavened bread. The materials would be easily procured--the lambs from their numerous flocks and the meal for the unleavened bread, by the aid of Jethro, from the land of Midian, which was adjoining their camp (Exo 3:1). But their girded loins, their sandaled feet, and their staff in their hand, being mere circumstances attending a hurried departure and not essential to the rite, were not repeated. It is supposed to have been the only observance of the feast during their forty years' wandering; and Jewish writers say that, as none could eat the passover except they were circumcised (Exo 12:43-44, Exo 12:48), and circumcision was not practised in the wilderness [Jos 5:4-7], there could be no renewal of the paschal solemnity.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

THE PASSOVER ENJOINED. (Num 9:1-5)

Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season, &c.--The date of this command to keep the passover in the wilderness was given shortly after the erection and consecration of the tabernacle and preceded the numbering of the people by a month. (Compare Num 9:1 with Num 1:1-2). But it is narrated after that transaction in order to introduce the notice of a particular case, for which a law was provided to meet the occasion. This was the first observance of the passover since the exodus; and without a positive injunction, the Israelites were under no obligation to keep it till their settlement in the land of Canaan (Exo 12:25). The anniversary was kept on the exact day of the year on which they, twelve months before, had departed from Egypt; and it was marked by all the peculiar rites--the he lamb and the unleavened bread. The materials would be easily procured--the lambs from their numerous flocks and the meal for the unleavened bread, by the aid of Jethro, from the land of Midian, which was adjoining their camp (Exo 3:1). But their girded loins, their sandaled feet, and their staff in their hand, being mere circumstances attending a hurried departure and not essential to the rite, were not repeated. It is supposed to have been the only observance of the feast during their forty years' wandering; and Jewish writers say that, as none could eat the passover except they were circumcised (Exo 12:43-44, Exo 12:48), and circumcision was not practised in the wilderness [Jos 5:4-7], there could be no renewal of the paschal solemnity.

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⁴ And this is the cause [01697] why Joshua [03091] did circumcise [04135]: All the people [05971] that came out [03318] of Egypt [04714], that were males [02145], even all the men [0582] of war [04421], died [04191] in the wilderness [04057] by the way [01870], after they came out [03318] of Egypt [04714].
⁵ Now [03588] all the people [05971] that came out [03318] were circumcised [04135]: but all the people [05971] that were born [03209] in the wilderness [04057] by the way [01870] as they came forth [03318] out of Egypt [04714], them they had not circumcised [04135].
⁶ For the children [01121] of Israel [03478] walked [01980] forty [0705] years [08141] in the wilderness [04057], till all the people [01471] that were men [0582] of war [04421], which came out [03318] of Egypt [04714], were consumed [08552], because they obeyed [08085] not the voice [06963] of the LORD [03068]: unto whom the LORD [03068] sware [07650] that he would not shew [07200] them the land [0776], which the LORD [03068] sware [07650] unto their fathers [01] that he would give [05414] us, a land [0776] that floweth [02100] with milk [02461] and honey [01706].
⁷ And their children [01121], whom he raised up [06965] in their stead, them Joshua [03091] circumcised [04135]: for they were uncircumcised [06189], because they had not circumcised [04135] them by the way [01870].

⁴⁸ And when a stranger [01616] shall sojourn [01481] with thee, and will keep [06213] the passover [06453] to the LORD [03068], let all his males [02145] be circumcised [04135], and then let him come near [07126] and keep [06213] it; and he shall be as one that is born [0249] in the land [0776]: for no uncircumcised person [06189] shall eat [0398] thereof.

⁴³ And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto Moses [04872] and Aaron [0175], This is the ordinance [02708] of the passover [06453]: There shall no stranger [01121] [05236] eat [0398] thereof:
⁴⁴ But every man's [0376] servant [05650] that is bought [04736] for money [03701], when thou hast circumcised [04135] him, then shall he eat [0398] thereof.

¹ Now Moses [04872] kept [01961] [07462] the flock [06629] of Jethro [03503] his father in law [02859], the priest [03548] of Midian [04080]: and he led [05090] the flock [06629] to the backside [0310] of the desert [04057], and came [0935] to the mountain [02022] of God [0430], even to Horeb [02722].

²⁵ And it shall come to pass, when ye be come [0935] to the land [0776] which the LORD [03068] will give [05414] you, according as he hath promised [01696], that ye shall keep [08104] this service [05656].

¹ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872] in the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514], in the tabernacle [0168] of the congregation [04150], on the first [0259] day of the second [08145] month [02320], in the second [08145] year [08141] after they were come out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], saying [0559],
² Take [05375] ye the sum [07218] of all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], after their families [04940], by the house [01004] of their fathers [01], with the number [04557] of their names [08034], every male [02145] by their polls [01538];

¹ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872] in the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514], in the first [07223] month [02320] of the second [08145] year [08141] after they were come out [03318] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], saying [0559],
² Let the children [01121] of Israel [03478] also keep [06213] the passover [06453] at his appointed season [04150].
³ In the fourteenth [0702] [06240] day [03117] of this month [02320], at even [06153], ye shall keep [06213] it in his appointed season [04150]: according to all the rites [02708] of it, and according to all the ceremonies [04941] thereof, shall ye keep [06213] it.
⁴ And Moses [04872] spake [01696] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], that they should keep [06213] the passover [06453].
⁵ And they kept [06213] the passover [06453] on the fourteenth [0702] [06240] day [03117] of the first [07223] month [02320] at even [06153] in the wilderness [04057] of Sinai [05514]: according to all that the LORD [03068] commanded [06680] Moses [04872], so did [06213] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].