Text: Numbers 9:1
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 12:8
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 12:8 prescribes how the Passover lamb is to be eaten: "roasted over fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs." Numbers 9:1-5 records Israel keeping the first anniversary Passover in the wilderness "according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses." The Numbers text confirms that the specific culinary instructions of Exodus 12:8 -- roasting (not boiling), unleavened bread (מַצּוֹת, matsot), and bitter herbs (מְרֹרִים, merorim) -- were maintained as binding elements of the annual observance, not merely as features of the original Egyptian Passover night.
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Text: Exodus 12:8
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 9:1
Subject: Passover meal elements in wilderness observance
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Anchor Text: Exod 12 — The Passover
Significance: Exodus 12:8 establishes the threefold Passover meal—roasted lamb, unleavened bread (מַצּוֹת, matsot), and bitter herbs (מְרֹרִים, merorim)—as normative for the night of deliverance. Numbers 9:1 records the LORD commanding Passover observance in the Wilderness of Sinai just one year later, with Numbers 9:11 confirming the identical meal elements. The connection underscores that the Passover meal was fixed from its institution: the same foods that marked liberation from Egypt were consumed annually in the wilderness, binding each generation's experience to the founding redemptive event.