Numbers 9:12

They shall not leave behind any of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall observe all the rituals of the Passover.

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In The King James Version

They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

In Context

11In the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and wild lettuce.

13But if any man was both clean, and not on a journey, and yet he did not observe the Passover, that soul shall be exterminated from among his people, because he did not offer the sacrifice to the Lord in its time. He shall bear his sin.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:10Neither shall there remain anything from it until morning. If anything will have been left over, you shall burn it with fire.

Exodus 12:46In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry its flesh outside, nor shall you break its bone.

John 19:36For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “You shall not break a bone of him.”

Matthew Henry on Numbers 9:2-15

The Law of the Passover. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they… Read the whole commentary →

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