Numbers 9:12
What does Numbers 9:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 9:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to every ordinance of the passover shall they hold it.
Context
v.11In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
v.12This passage
v.13But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 9:3
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.
- Exodus 12:43
And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof;
- Exodus 12:46
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
- John 19:36
For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
- Exodus 12:10
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
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