Numbers 9:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְכִֽי־יָג֨וּר אִתְּכֶ֜ם גֵּ֗ר וְעָ֤שָֽׂה פֶ֙סַח֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה כְּחֻקַּ֥ת הַפֶּ֛סַח וּכְמִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ כֵּ֣ן יַעֲשֶׂ֑ה חֻקָּ֤ה אַחַת֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם וְלַגֵּ֖ר וּלְאֶזְרַ֥ח הָאָֽרֶץ׃ פ

Transliteration

And if yāgûr with you gēr and ʿāśâ pesaḥ to YHWH according to ḥuqqaṯ the pesaḥ and according to mišpāṭô thus yaʿăśeh ḥuqqāh ʾaḥaṯ yihyeh to you and to gēr and to ʾezraḥ the ʾāreṣ.

Grammar Details

• *yāgûr*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - sojourns/dwells temporarily
• *gēr*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the foreigner
• *ʿāśâ*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will observe/keep
• *pesaḥ*: common noun, masculine singular with definite article - the Passover
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ḥuqqaṯ*: common noun, feminine singular construct - statute/ordinance of
• *mišpāṭô*: common noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its ordinance
• *yaʿăśeh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he shall do
• *ḥuqqāh*: common noun, feminine singular - statute/ordinance
• *ʾaḥaṯ*: cardinal number, feminine singular - one
• *yihyeh*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - there shall be
• *ʾezraḥ*: common noun, masculine singular construct - native-born of
• *ʾāreṣ*: common noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land

Word Meanings

• *gēr*: foreigner/sojourner/alien/resident non-Israelite
• *ḥuqqāh*: statute/ordinance/regulation/prescription
• *ʾezraḥ hāʾāreṣ*: native-born/citizen of the land

Referenced Verses

• Exod 12:48-49 : 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
• Lev 24:22 : 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.
• Lev 25:15 : 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, [and] according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.
• Deut 29:11 : 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
• Deut 31:12 : 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
• Isa 56:3-7 : 3 Neither let the foreigner, that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: 5 Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast my covenant; 7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
• Eph 2:19-22 : 19 So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Lev 19:10 : 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.
• Lev 22:25 : 25 Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.