Num. 9 The passover kept in the wilderness on the fourteenth day of the first month, Num. 9:1–5. By those who were then unclean or journeying, the fourteenth day of the second month, Num. 9:6–12. They who otherwise neglect it to be put to death, Num. 9:13. Proselytes are to observe the same, Num.

In the first month; and therefore before the numbering of the people, which was not till the second month, Num. 1:1–2. But it is placed after it, because of a special case relating to the passover, which happened after it, and which is here related, upon occasion whereof he mentions the command of…

So far as concerned the lamb and the unleavened bread, &c., for there were some things peculiar to the first passover in Egypt, as that they were to eat it in haste, with their loins girded, their shoes on their feet, and their staff in their hand, which were not properly rites or ceremonies of the…

By the dead body of a man; by the touch of a dead body, or something belonging to it; (see Num. 19:11 because unclean persons were prohibited to eat of holy things. See Lev. 8:20, Lev. 22:3. They came before Moses, for resolution of their difficulty.

Which if we neglect, we must be cut off; and if we keep it in these circumstances, we must also be cut off. What shall we do? The passover is called an offering of the Lord, because it was both killed and eaten in obedience to God’s command, and to God’s honour, and as a thank-offering to God for…

God having promised to answer and direct him upon his address to him in difficult cases.

Under these two instances the Hebrews think that other hinderances of like nature are comprehended; as if one be hindered by a disease, or by any other such kind of uncleanness; which may seem probable both from the nature of the thing, and the reason of the law, which is the same in other cases,…

Leave none of it unto the morning, but either eat or burn it before that time.

The man that forbeareth to keep the passover, through contempt or neglect, without these or any other just impediments, as before.

A stranger, to wit, a proselyte.

the tent of the testimony, or, the tabernacle towards or above the tent of the testimony, i.e. that part of the tabernacle in which was the testimony, or the ark of the testimony; for there the cloudy pillar stood, Lev. 16:2.

Was taken up, or, ascended on high, above its ordinary place, by which it became more visible to all the camp.

The motion or stay of the cloud is fitly called the command of God, because it was a signification of God’s will and their duty, which a command properly is.

The charge of the Lord, i.e. the command of God mentioned before, that they should stay as long as the cloud staid, as the same phrase is manifestly taken below, Num. 9:23.