Numbers 9:1-23 NIV
The Passover
1The Lord Spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai
in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. HE Said, 2“Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed
time. 3Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the
fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and
regulations.”
4So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover, 5and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the
fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just As The Lord Commanded Moses.
6But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day
because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came
to Moses and Aaron that same day 7and said to Moses, “We have become unclean because of a dead
body, but why should we be kept from presenting The Lord’s offering with the other
Israelites at the appointed time?”
8Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out What The Lord Commands concerning you.”
9Then The Lord Said to Moses, 10“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are
unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to
celebrate The Lord’s Passover, 11but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month
at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs.
12 They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones.
When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations. 13But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting The Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.
12 They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones.
When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations. 13But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting The Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.
14“ ‘A foreigner residing among you is
also to celebrate The Lord’s Passover
in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same
regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.’ ”
The Cloud Above the Tabernacle
15On the day the Tabernacle, the tent of the Covenant Law, was set
up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the
Tabernacle looked like fire. 16That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at
night it looked like fire. 17Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites
set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped.
18At The Lord’s Command the Israelites set out, and at His Command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle, they remained in camp.19When the cloud remained over the Tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed The Lord’s order and did not set out. 20Sometimes the cloud was over the Tabernacle only a few days; at The Lord’s Command they would encamp, and then at His Command they would set out. 21Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. 22Whether the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.
23 At The Lord’s Command they encamped, and at The Lord’s Command they set out.
18At The Lord’s Command the Israelites set out, and at His Command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle, they remained in camp.19When the cloud remained over the Tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed The Lord’s order and did not set out. 20Sometimes the cloud was over the Tabernacle only a few days; at The Lord’s Command they would encamp, and then at His Command they would set out. 21Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. 22Whether the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.
23 At The Lord’s Command they encamped, and at The Lord’s Command they set out.
They obeyed The Lord’s order, in accordance with
His Command through Moses.
Do not break any of the bones
Numbers 9:12
They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones.
Exodus 12:46
It must
be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
John 19:33-37
But when they
came to JESUS and found that he was already dead, they did not break His Legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced
JESUS’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given
testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he
testifies so that you also may believe.
These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: “Not One of His Bones Will Be Broken,” and, as another scripture says, “They
will look on The One they have pierced.”
Psalm 34:20
Many are the
afflictions of the righteous; But The LORD Delivers Him out of them all. HE Keeps all His Bones, not One of Them Is Broken.
CHRIST Is our
Passover Lamb
1 Corinthians 5:7
Get rid of
the old yeast, so that you may be a new
unleavened batch--as you really are. For CHRIST, our Passover Lamb, Has Been Sacrificed.
This is observed,
to show the pertinence of the similes of leaven and unleavened, the apostle had
made use of; and to make some further improvement of them, for the use,
comfort, and instruction of this church; saying, that CHRIST Is "our Passover",
the Christians' Passover.
The Jewish Passover
was a type of CHRIST; wherefore Moses kept it by faith, in the faith of the
MESSIAH That Was To Come; see Hebrews 11:28 as it was instituted in commemoration of the deliverance of
the Israelites from Egypt, so likewise to prefigure CHRIST and the redemption
of His people by Him.
The Jews have a
saying,
"that in the month Nisan they were redeemed, and in the month Nisan they will be redeemed,''
which was the month in which the Passover was kept; and for the confirmation of which, they mention the following texts, Micah 7:15. There is an agreement between the Passover, and CHRIST, in the sacrifice itself, and the qualities of it. It was a "lamb", as Christ is The "Lamb" of GOD, of His appointing and providing, and fitly so called, for His Innocence and Harmlessness, His Meekness, Humility, and Patience; it was a Lamb "without blemish", as CHRIST Is, without spot and blemish, without the spot of original sin, or blemish of any actual transgression: it was a Male, as CHRIST Is The Son or Man, the Head of the Body, and the "Firstborn" among many brethren; it was a male of the first year; in which it might prefigure CHRIST in the flower of His Age, arrived at man's estate, and having had experience of a variety of sorrows and afflictions.
There is also some
likeness between them in the separation and slaying of it. The Passover lamb
was to be "taken out from the sheep, or from the goats"; as CHRIST's Human Nature was chosen out from among the people, and, in GOD's eternal Counsel and Covenant, separated from the rest of the individuals of human
nature, and taken into a federal union with The SON of GOD, and preordained
before the foundation of the world, to be the Lamb Slain; it was also
wonderfully formed by The HOLY SPIRIT in the virgin's womb, and separated and
preserved from the infection of sin; and in His Life and Conversation here on
earth, HE Was Separated from sinners, from Being like them, and Is now Made
higher than the heavens.
This lamb was kept
up from the "tenth" of the month, to the "fourteenth",
before it was killed; which might typify Preservation of CHRIT, in His Infancy, from the malice of Herod, and, in His riper years, from the designs of
the Jews upon Him, until His Time Was Come; and it is to be observed, that
there was much such a space of time between His Entrance into Jerusalem, and His
Sufferings and Death; see John 12:11.
The lamb was
"slain", so the Prince of Life Was Killed; and "between the two
evenings", as CHRIST Was in the end of the world, in the last days, in the
decline of time, of the age of the world, and even of the time of the day,
about the "ninth" hour, or three o'clock in the afternoon, the time between
the two evenings; the first evening beginning at noon as soon as the sun began
to decline, the other upon the setting of it.
There is likewise a
comparison of these together to be observed, in the dressing and eating of it.
The Passover lamb was not to be eaten "raw nor sodden"; so CHRIST Is To Be Eaten not in a carnal, but in a spiritual way, by faith; it was to be
"roast with fire", denoting the painful Sufferings of CHRIST on the Cross,
and the fire of Divine Wrath that fell upon Him; it was to be eaten
"whole", as a whole CHRIST Is To Be Received by faith, in His Person,
and in all His Offices, Grace, and Righteousness; not a "bone" of it
was to be "broken", which was fulfilled in CHRIST, John 19:36 .
It was to be eaten
"with unleavened bread", which is spiritualized by the apostle in the
next verse; and also with "bitter herbs", expressive of the hard
bondage and severe afflictions, with which the lives of the Israelites were
made bitter in Egypt; and of the persecutions and trials that such must expect,
who live godly and by faith in CHRIST JESUS: it was eaten only by Israelites,
and such as became proselytes, as CHRIST, only by true believers; and if the
household was too little, they were to join with their "neighbors";
which might typify the calling and bringing in of the Gentiles, when the middle
wall of partition was broken down, CHRIST, His Flesh and Blood being common to
both.
The first Passover
was eaten in haste, with their loins girt, their shoes on, and staves in their
hands, ready to depart from Egypt to Canaan's land; denoting the readiness of
believers to every good work; having their feet shod with the preparation of
the Gospel of peace; their loins girt about with truth, their lights burning,
and they like men waiting for their LORD's Coming; hasting to the Day of The
LORD, being earnestly, desirous of being absent from the body, that they might
be present with Him: in a word, the receiving of the Blood of the Passover Lamb
into a basin, sprinkling it on the lintel, and two side posts of the doors of
the houses, in which they ate it, which the Lord seeing passed over those
houses, when HE Passed Through Egypt to destroy the firstborn, whence it has
its name of the Passover, were very signifying the blood of sprinkling, even
the Blood of CHRIST upon the hearts and consciences of believers; whereby they
are secured from avenging justice, from the curse and condemnation of the Law,
and from wrath to come, and shall never be hurt of the second death.
Thus
CHRIST Is our Passover Lamb, Who Was Sacrificed, Whose Body and Soul Were Offered as an Offering and Sacrifice to GOD for us, that HE Might Be proper Food
for our faith; to make satisfaction to Divine Justice for all our sins and
transgressions.
Amen.
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