Numbers 9:1 to Leviticus 23:5

OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 23:5

Subject: alternate Passover timing

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Significance: Leviticus 23:5 places Passover within Israel's comprehensive liturgical calendar: "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD's Passover" (פֶּסַח לַיהוָה, pesach la-YHWH). Numbers 9:1-5 records the first observance of this calendar date in the wilderness. Both texts use identical timing language ("the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight"), confirming the synchronization between Leviticus's festal calendar and Numbers's narrative implementation. Together they establish that Passover is simultaneously a historical commemoration (Numbers links it to the exodus) and a fixed festival in God's appointed times (מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה, mo'adey YHWH) as defined by Leviticus.

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Text: Leviticus 23:5

OT Text Referred to: Numbers 9:1

Subject: Passover timing

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Significance: Leviticus 23:5 prescribes Passover (פֶּסַח) on the fourteenth of the first month at twilight, establishing the annual commemoration within the festal calendar. Numbers 9:1 records the LORD commanding Moses in the Sinai wilderness to "have the Israelites observe the Passover at its appointed time" — the first implementation of the Levitical regulation. The Numbers narrative shows the Levitical festal law being enacted as a historical event, transitioning from legislation to practice. The subsequent case of the corpse-unclean men (Num 9:6-14) who could not observe the Passover demonstrates that practical application of the Levitical calendar immediately generated pastoral questions requiring divine adjudication.