Numbers 9:12
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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.
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This chapter is, I. Concerning the great ordinance of the passover; 1. Orders given for the observance of it, at the return of the year (Num 9:1-5). 2. Provisos added in regard to such as should be ceremonially unclean, or otherwise disabled, at the time when the passover was to be kept (Num 9:6-14). II. Concerning the great favour of the pillar of cloud, which was a guide to Israel through the wilderness (Num 9:15, etc.).
Open source ↗9:12 The bones of the Passover lamb were not to be broken (see Exod 12:46; Ps 34:20; John 19:32-36; cp. John 1:29; 1 Cor 5:7). The apostle John made reference to this instruction when reporting that Jesus’ legs were not broken on the cross (John 19:36).
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Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
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.
Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”