Text: Numbers 9:1
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 12:18
Subject: alternate Passover timing
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Exod 12 — The Passover
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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Text: Exodus 12:18
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 9:1
Subject: alternate time for Passover
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Anchor Text: Exod 12 — The Passover
Significance: Exodus 12:18 establishes the calendar dates for unleavened bread consumption during Passover week, and Numbers 9:1 records the LORD's command to observe these same Passover statutes in the Wilderness of Sinai, one year after the exodus. The verbal connection centers on the appointed time (מוֹעֵד, mo'ed) framework that both texts share—Exodus prescribing the dates, Numbers confirming their ongoing observance. This reaffirmation in the wilderness demonstrates that the Passover calendar was not a one-time instruction for the night of departure but a perpetual ordinance binding on each generation.