Numbers 9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:7

And those men said unto him ,.... To Moses, who was the chief magistrate, though Aaron was the high priest. Jarchi says, they were both sitting together when the men came, and put the question to them, but it was not proper to speak to one after another; for if Moses knew not, how should Aaron know? says he; the more difficult matters were brought to Moses, and he gave answers to them: we are defiled by the dead body of a man ; they had touched it, or had been where it was, or at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:8

And Moses said unto them, stand still ,.... Where they were; Aben Ezra says, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you ; as it was a singular case, of which there had been no instance before, Moses would not determine anything about it himself, but would inquire of the Lord his mind and will concerning it; and for that purpose, very probably, went into the most holy place, where the Lord had promised to meet him and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:9

And the Lord spake unto Moses ,.... From between the cherubim, after he had laid the case before him, and he gave him an answer: saying ; as follows. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:10

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying ,.... Not to the men only that came to Moses for advice, but to the body of the people; for the answer of the Lord concerned them all, and carried in it a rule to be observed in the like case, and others mentioned, in all succeeding ages, as long as the passover was an ordinance of God: if any man of you ; or "a man, a man", or any private man; for, according to the Jewish writers, this law only respects private persons, as those were who were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:11

The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it ,.... The mouth Ijar, as the Targum of Jonathan, which answers to part of our April and part of May; so that there was a month allowed for those that were defiled to cleanse themselves; and for those on a journey to return home and prepare for the passover, which was not to be totally omitted, nor deferred any longer; and it was to be kept on the same day of the month, and at the same time of the day the first passover was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:12

They shall leave none of it unto the morning ,.... None of the flesh of the passover lamb, what was left was to be burnt with fire, Exodus 12:10 , nor break any bone of it ; the same was enjoined; see Gill on Exodus 12:46 , according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it : as when observed in its time, excepting the feast of unleavened bread, which followed the first passover, and those rites which were peculiar to the passover, as kept at their first coming... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:13

But the man that is clean ,.... Free from any pollution by a dead body, or the like: and is not in a journey ; in a distant country; for if he was on a journey in his own nation, he ought to return and attend the passover, which all the males from the several parts of the land were obliged unto; wherefore the Vulgate Latin version of Numbers 9:10 ; is a wrong one; "or in a way afar off in your nation"; for at whatsoever distance they were in their own nation, they were bound to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:14

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord ,.... Then he must become a proselyte of righteousness, and be circumcised, or otherwise be might not eat of the passover, Exodus 12:48 ; Ben Gersom interprets this of the second passover, and of a proselyte that was not obliged to the first, he not being then a proselyte, but became one between the first and the second; and so Aben Ezra understands it of a second passover, though he observes, that some say... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:15

And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up ,.... Which was the first day of the first month in the second year of the people of Israel's coming out of Egypt, Exodus 40:1 , the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely , the tent of the testimony ; that part of the tabernacle in which the testimony was, that is, where the ark was, in which the law was put, called the testimony; and this was the most holy place; and over the tent or covering of that was this cloud, which settled upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 9:16

So it was alway ,.... Night and day, as long as the people of Israel were in the wilderness, see Exodus 13:21 , the cloud covered it by day : the phrase, "by day", is not in the text, but is easily and necessarily supplied from Exodus 40:38 ; and as it is in the Targum of Jonathan, and in the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and which the following clause requires: and the appearance of fire by night ; when as a cloud it could not be because of the... read more

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