Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 9:5
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth, day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai,…. No mention is made of keeping the feast of unleavened bread seven days, only of the passover, which indeed was only enjoined at this time, though the feast of unleavened bread used to follow it, and did in later times; but perhaps it would not have been an easy matter to have got the flour to make it of, sufficient for so large a body of people, for seven days together in the wilderness; though they might be able to furnish themselves with what was enough for one meal from the neighbouring countries, and especially from Midian, where Jethro, Moses’s father, lived, and which was not very far from Sinai, where the Israelites now were:
according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel; which is observed to their honour; though Jarchi gives this as a reason why this book does not begin with this account, as the order of things seems to require, because it was to the reproach of the Israelites, that all the forty years they were in the wilderness they kept but this passover only; the reason of which was, because of the omission of circumcision during that time, through the inconveniences of travelling, and the danger of circumcision in it, without which their children could not eat of the passover, Ex 12:48.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day . . . There is no mention here of the observance of the feast of unleavened bread for seven days, as it was enjoined in Exo. 12:18. It might not have been practicable to obtain a sufficient quantity of flour to last so large a number of people for seven days, though it may have been easy to procure from Midian or elsewhere a sufficient quantity for one meal.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Num 9:5. And they kept the passover It was the more necessary to repeat the injunction for the observation of the passover, Num 9:2 as they might have concluded, from Exo 12:25 that they were under no obligation to keep it in the wilderness; but, being now in a quiet state, and having rested for almost a whole year, they had that leisure for the observance of it, which, in their future unsettled condition, we do not find they had afterwards; not even circumcising their children, Jos 5:5 who, consequently, could not eat of the passover. Exo 12:48.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Num 9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Ver. 5. And they kept the passover. ] See Trapp on “ Exo 12:1 “ &c
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
kept the passover: the second of ten recorded. See note on Exo 12:18, Exo 12:28. Lev 23:5. Lev 28:16. Deu 16:2, and Compare Num 7:89 Num 9:14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
they kept: Jos 5:10
according: Num 8:20, Num 29:40, Gen 6:22, Gen 7:5, Exo 39:32, Exo 39:42, Deu 1:3, Deu 4:5, Mat 28:20, Joh 15:14, Act 26:19, Heb 3:5, Heb 11:8
Reciprocal: Num 10:11 – on Num 10:12 – out of the
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 9:5. They kept the passover in the wilderness Where they rested almost a whole year; but after they removed from thence, they were in so unsettled a condition that they did not even circumcise their children, (Jos 5:5,) who consequently could not eat the passover, Exo 12:48.