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What does Numbers 9:4 mean?
"Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover."
— Numbers 9:4 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh 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,
“Moreover 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—according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.”
Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover.
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 Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
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 before Aaron on that day.
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 Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?”
Explanation
Numbers 9:4 is a simple, direct statement: Moses passed along God's command to the Israelites that they were to observe the Passover. In its plain sense, it shows a leader faithfully transmitting divine instruction to the people under his care, ensuring an obedient response to what God had ordered.
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