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: "The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. You are to observe it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with its statutes and ordinances." So Moses told the Israelites to observe the Passover, and they did so in the Wilderness of Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses. But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day and said to Moses, "We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD's offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?" "Wait here until I find out what the LORD commands concerning you," Moses replied. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: 'When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD. Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes. But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD's offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin. If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.'"
Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
Significance
Exodus 12:10 commands that nothing of the Passover lamb remain until morning -- any leftovers must be burned with fire. Numbers 9:12 restates this rule within the comprehensive wilderness Passover legislation: "They must not leave any of it until morning" (לֹא יַשְׁאִירוּ מִמֶּנּוּ עַד בֹּקֶר). The Numbers passage quotes Exodus almost verbatim, confirming that every detail of the original Passover ordinance carries forward into the annual observance. Numbers 9:1-14 also adds the delayed-Passover provision and the foreigner-inclusion rule, expanding the Exodus legislation while maintaining all its original stipulations unchanged.
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Reference Type
Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s)
Longitudinal Theme — ruled against the proposed Redemptive-Historical Progression: Numbers 9:12's near-verbatim restatement of Exodus 12:10 is legislative continuation of the one Passover-lamb thread (running to 1 Corinthians 5:7), the second-year observance adding provisions without advancing the redemptive storyline itself.
