Text: Numbers 9:1-14
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 12:18
Subject: Passover calendar reaffirmed
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Exod 12 — The Passover
Significance: Exodus 12:18 establishes the calendar for Passover and Unleavened Bread: from the evening of the fourteenth to the evening of the twenty-first day of the first month. Numbers 9:1-14 records the first annual observance of this calendar in the wilderness and reaffirms every element of the Exodus legislation, adding only the delayed-Passover provision for those ritually unclean or on a distant journey. The Numbers passage treats the Exodus calendar as permanently binding ("according to all its statutes and ordinances"), while also demonstrating the flexibility built into the system for those with legitimate impediments to participation.
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Text: Exodus 12:18
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 9:1-14
Subject: Passover calendar observance reaffirmed
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Anchor Text: Exod 12 — The Passover
Significance: Exodus 12:18 specifies eating unleavened bread from the evening of the fourteenth to the twenty-first day of the first month, and Numbers 9:1-14 reaffirms this calendrical observance by commanding Israel to keep the Passover "at its appointed time" (בְּמוֹעֲדוֹ, bemo'ado) at twilight on the fourteenth day. Numbers 9 adds a significant innovation: provision for a supplementary Passover in the second month for those who were ritually unclean or absent on a journey. This expansion shows the Passover calendar was both fixed in its core timing and flexible enough to ensure no Israelite was permanently excluded from the foundational covenant meal.