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The LORD 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, See also: Numbers 1:1Exodus 40:2“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. See also: Deuteronomy 16:1-21 Corinthians 5:7-8Leviticus 23:5On 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.” See also: Exodus 12:6-112 Chronicles 30:15Hebrews 9:26Moses told 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 the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. See also: Joshua 5:10Exodus 39:42Deuteronomy 1:3There 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. See also: Numbers 27:2Exodus 18:15Exodus 18:19Those 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 the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?” See also: 2 Chronicles 30:17-19Exodus 12:271 Corinthians 5:7-8Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.” See also: Psalms 85:8Numbers 27:5Psalms 25:14The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “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 the LORD. See also: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11Romans 16:25-26Ephesians 2:12-13In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:2-15Exodus 12:2-14Deuteronomy 16:3They 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. See also: John 19:36Exodus 12:46Exodus 12:10But 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 the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. See also: Genesis 17:14Exodus 12:15Numbers 9:7“‘If a foreigner lives among you and desires to keep the Passover to the LORD, 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.’” See also: Exodus 12:48-49Leviticus 24:22Ephesians 2:19-22On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. See also: Exodus 13:21Exodus 40:34Nehemiah 9:19So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. See also: Nehemiah 9:12Exodus 40:38Nehemiah 9:19Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. See also: Exodus 40:36-38Numbers 10:33-34Psalms 32:8At the commandment of the LORD, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. See also: 1 Corinthians 10:1Exodus 17:12 John 1:6When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the LORD’s command, and didn’t travel. See also: Zechariah 3:7Numbers 3:8Numbers 1:52-53Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they traveled. Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled. See also: Nehemiah 9:19Nehemiah 9:12Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. See also: Exodus 40:36-37Psalms 32:8Deuteronomy 1:6-7At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they traveled. They kept the LORD’s command, at the commandment of the LORD by Moses. See also: Numbers 9:19Joshua 22:3Genesis 26:5
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Numbers 9:1
Ver. 1. The Lord. The 15 first verses might be placed at the head of this book.
God gave orders to celebrate the first passover in the desert, about the 14th of the first month, in the second year of liberty, soon after the consecration of the tabernacle. C. --- This is the only passover which the Jews are recorded to have celebrated during the 40 years' sojournment; as they were not allowed to celebrate it, without having circumcised all the males of their family, (Ex. xii.
43,) which they could not do in the wilderness (His cuni, &c.) being uncertain how soon they would have to remove by the direction of God. H. --- First month. Hence, Moses does not always observe the order of time, as he spoke (C. i.) of what happened in the second month. D.
↑ 1Numbers 9:3
Ver. 3. In the. Heb. "between the two evenings." Ex. xii. 6. Sept. "towards the evening, in its season, according to its law, and determination," sugkrisin, (v.
14,) suntaxin, "arrangement;" in both places we have justifications. H. --- God's law is so called, because nothing can be done right without it. M. --- The merit of human actions depends on their conformity with the will of God; (D.) and when he gives directions, we must comply exactly. H.
↑ 3Numbers 9:5
Ver. 5. In Mount. Heb. "desert ( or mountainous country) of Sinai" Ex. xiv. 3. C.
↑ 5Numbers 9:6
Ver. 6. Some. Heb. "and there was men," a solecism, rejected by the Sam. and Arab. copies.
Houbigant. --- Man. That is, by having touched, or come near, a dead body, out of which the soul was departed. Ch. --- Such were forbidden to offer any sacrifice. Lev. xxii. 4. Yet they could not refrain from burying the dead. Philo.
de vita Mos. 3. As, therefore, the action was far from being criminal, and they had partaken of the paschal lamb without restriction in Egypt, and heard that God required all to offer this sacrifice, under pain of excision, (v. 13,) they reasonably wished to know how they were to act, particularly as the 14th of Nisan alone was appointed for this sacrifice, and they could not be purified in less than seven days. If the law, by which they were excluded from the camp, (C. v. 2,) were already published, they consulted Moses by some friend. The Rabbins suppose, that those who buried Nadab and Abiu, are meant. C. --- The common people did not properly offer a sacrifice, though they might kill the victim. D.
↑ 6Numbers 9:10
Ver. 10. Unclean, in what manner soever. Philo. --- Nation; or at a great distance, whether in the country or out of it. The Rabbins say 15 miles, or leagues, (C.) which make 45 miles. H. ---
Sept. all such were bound to observe the passover in the second month, as the whole people did under Ezechias; (2 Par. xxx.) though the Rabbins falsely pretend, that when the greater part of the people were under this predicament, the law did not oblige, and they might eat the paschal lamb in the month of Nisan. Women were not bound to make the second Phase. Ex. xii. 19. C. ---
This festival was never transferred beyond the second month. M.
↑ 10Numbers 9:14
Ver. 14. Stranger. Both the Jews who lived at a distance from the promised land, and those of other nations who had embraced their religion, were obliged to observe this law; while the uncircumcised were absolutely excluded. C.
↑ 14Numbers 9:15
Ver. 15. A cloud, and fire, alternately covered the tabernacle of the covenant, which was 30
cubits long and 15 broad. The pagans, perhaps, hence took occasion to accuse the Jews of adoring the clouds. Nil præter nubis & cœli Numen adorant. Juv. Sat. xiv. C.
↑ 15Numbers 9:16
Ver. 16. By day. These words are omitted in the Heb.; but the context shews that they must necessarily be supplied; as they are in the Sept. The same cloud assumed different appearances.
C.
↑ 16Numbers 9:20
Ver. 20. For, &c. Heb. "and so it was when the cloud was days of number upon the tabernacle; by the mouth of the Lord they staid in their tents," &c. Days of number, yamim mispar, most probably means a few days; (see Deut. iv. 27,) though Louis de Dieu would translate "a full year;"
as yamim, according to him, signifies, v. 22. It is understood, however, by others, to denote a week, a month, a year, or an indeterminate number of days.
Gen. xxiv. 55.
↑ 20Numbers 9:23
Ver. 23. Watches, like sentinels, observing the signal of the cloud; and regulating the time and course of their marches by its direction. H.
↑ 23License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses