Numbers 9:12

You must not leave any of it until the following morning and you must not break any of its bones. You must observe the Passover according to all the regulations.

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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

11You are to observe it in the evening after sunset on the fourteenth day of the second month. You are to eat the lamb with the bread made without yeast, and the bitter herbs.

13However, anyone ceremonially clean and not away traveling who neglects to observe the Passover must be expelled from their people, because they didn't present the Lord's offering at the appropriate time. They will bear the responsibility for the consequences of their sin.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:10Make sure nothing is left until the morning. If there is anything left over, burn it by morning.

Exodus 12:46It has to be eaten inside the house. You are not allowed to take any of the meat outside the house, or to break any of the bones.

John 19:36It happened like this so Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken,”

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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