King James Version
Numbers 9:4 in the King James Version says “And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.”
Numbers 9:4 · KJV
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
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. at even: Heb. between the two evenings
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
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.
And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“unto the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“that they should keep”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
“the passover”
H6453a pretermission, i.e., exemption; used only techically of the jewish passover (the festival or the victim)
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