King James Version
Numbers 9:12 in the King James Version says “They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover ...” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.”
Numbers 9:12 · KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
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not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“They shall leave”
H7604properly, to swell up, i.e., be (causatively, make) redundant
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“none of it unto the morning”
H1242properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning
“any bone”
H6106a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of the passover”
H6453a pretermission, i.e., exemption; used only techically of the jewish passover (the festival or the victim)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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