Text: Numbers 9:1-14
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 23:5
Subject: Passover in festal calendar implemented
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Leviticus 23:5 establishes the Passover within God's appointed times (מוֹעֲדִים, mo'adim): "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD's Passover." Numbers 9:1-14 records Israel's first annual celebration of this appointed time in the wilderness, plus the innovative delayed-Passover provision. The connection shows Numbers implementing what Leviticus legislates: the festal calendar of Leviticus 23 provides the framework, and Numbers provides both the narrative of observance and the casuistic legislation needed to address practical complications (impurity, travel) that arise when the calendar is actually observed.
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Text: Leviticus 23:5
OT Text Referred to: Numbers 9:1-14
Subject: Passover observance and second-month provision
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Leviticus 23:5 establishes the date for Passover (פֶּסַח, pesach): "on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight." Numbers 9:1-14 narrates the first anniversary Passover in the wilderness and introduces a crucial supplement: men who were ritually unclean from corpse-contact or on a distant journey could observe a "second Passover" (פֶּסַח שֵׁנִי) on the fourteenth day of the second month. This provision — derived from a specific pastoral case brought to Moses — demonstrates how the fixed Levitical calendar could be adapted to accommodate practical realities without abandoning the core obligation. Numbers 9:13 simultaneously insists that anyone who is clean and not on a journey yet fails to observe Passover "shall be cut off," preserving the mandatory character of the Levitical regulation.