Numbers 9:2
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“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
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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 ↗9:2-3 The Hebrews were told to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time (see Exod 12:6). • at twilight: The Hebrew day begins at sundown.
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Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover.
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.