NUMB 9:1-14 Passover Law
Scripture
YHWH spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. 3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season. You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. 5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that YHWH commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. 6 There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7 Those men said to him, “We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
8 Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what YHWH will command concerning you.”
9 YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Say to the children of Israel, ‘If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to YHWH. 11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
14 “ ‘If a foreigner lives among you and desires to keep the Passover to YHWH, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner and for him who is born in the land.’ ”
Speaker: Moses, Other, YHWH | Bible Version: TCMV
Law
Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season.
You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.
If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to YHWH. In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
If a foreigner lives among you and desires to keep the Passover to YHWH, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner and for him who is born in the land.
Judgement
The man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn’t offer the offering of YHWH in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Biblical Example
This is a biblical example of the Passover Law being followed.
Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly. 14 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron. 15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month...
2 Chronicles 30:13-15 (WEB)
This biblical example is referring to the beginning of King Hezekiah's time in Israel. His father, King Ahaz did evil works before YHWH. Upon taking the throne, King Hezekiah had the altars and other evil works of his father destroyed. Israel waited till the second month of the new year to observe the Passover because the priests had not sanctified themselves and the people had not gathered themselves together.
Present Day Example
This is a present day example of the Passover Law not being followed.
In 2021, the Passover occurred on March 27th. The Feast of Unleavened Bread occurred from March 28th - April 3rd in 2021. An individual in The House of Israel that did not properly partake in the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread disobeyed this law.