Later text
Numbers 9:1BSB
In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Intertextuality Pair
Numbers 9:1 → Exodus 12:18
Allusion
Earlier text
Exodus 12:18BSB
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
Significance
Exodus 12:18 specifies the Passover calendar: "In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you are to eat unleavened bread." Numbers 9:1-5 records the first post-exodus Passover observance: "on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the Wilderness of Sinai." This second Passover demonstrates that the Exodus 12 calendar was not a one-time emergency provision but a permanent annual observance. The Numbers text explicitly requires compliance with "all its statutes and all its ordinances" (כְּכָל חֻקֹּתָיו, kekhol chuqqotav), confirming that every detail of the Exodus legislation remained binding.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Longitudinal Theme
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