Nu 9:3
9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep
    it in his appointed season: according to {a} all the rites
    of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye
    keep it.

    (a) Even in all points as the Lord has instituted it.

Nu 9:6
9:6 And there were certain men, who were defiled {b} by the dead
    body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that
    day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that
    day:

    (b) By touching a corpse, or being at the burial.

Nu 9:7
9:7 And those men said unto him, We [are] defiled by the dead
    body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not
    {c} offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season
    among the children of Israel?

    (c) Or, celebrate the Passover the fourteenth day of the
        first month.

Nu 9:10
9:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of
     you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a
     dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet {d} he shall
     keep the passover unto the LORD.

     (d) And cannot come where the tabernacle is, when others
         keep it.

Nu 9:11
9:11 The fourteenth day of the {e} second month at even they
     shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and
     bitter [herbs].

     (e) So that the unclean and those who are not at home, have
         a month longer granted to them.

Nu 9:13
9:13 But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a {f} journey,
     and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul
     shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought
     not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that
     man shall bear his sin.

     (f) When the Passover is celebrated.

Nu 9:15
9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud
     covered the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the
     testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it
     were the {g} appearance of fire, until the morning.

     (g) Like a pillar, read Ex 13:21,22.

Nu 9:18
9:18 At the commandment of the {h} LORD the children of Israel
     journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched:
     as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested
     in their tents.

     (h) Who taught them what to do by the cloud.

Nu 9:19
9:19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many
     days, then the children of Israel kept the {i} charge of
     the LORD, and journeyed not.

     (i) They waited when the Lord would signify either their
         departure, or their abode by the cloud.

Nu 9:23
9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents,
     and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they
     kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD
     by the {k} hand of Moses.

     (k) Under the charge and government of Moses.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.