KJV King James Version
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
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Numbers 9:2
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.
WEB World English Bible
“Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
ASV American Standard Version
Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Also, the sons of Israel prepare the passover in its appointed season;
Surrounding context — Numbers 9
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 16:1-2Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.1 Corinthians 5:7-8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:Leviticus 23:5In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.2 Chronicles 35:1Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.Joshua 5:10And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.Numbers 28:16And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD.Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?Exodus 12:1-20And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,Ezra 6:19And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month.Luke 22:7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
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