Numbers 9:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they kept the passover in the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּעֲשׂ֣וּ אֶת־הַפֶּ֡סַח בָּרִאשׁ֡וֹן בְּאַרְבָּעָה֩ עָשָׂ֨ר י֥וֹם לַחֹ֛דֶשׁ בֵּ֥ין הָעַרְבַּ֖יִם בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר סִינָ֑י כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אֶת־מֹשֶׁ֔ה כֵּ֥ן עָשׂ֖וּ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wayyaʿăśû ʾeṯ-happesaḥ in rīʾšôn in ʾarbāʿāh ʿāśār yôm to ḥōḏeš between hāʿarbayim in miḏbar Sînāy according to all which ṣiwwāh YHWH ʾeṯ-Mōšeh thus ʿāśû bənê Yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

*wayyaʿăśû*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they kept/observed
*ʾeṯ-happesaḥ*: direct object marker + definite article + common noun - the Passover
*rīʾšôn*: ordinal number with definite article - the first [month]
*ʾarbāʿāh ʿāśār yôm*: cardinal number phrase - fourteenth day
*ḥōḏeš*: common noun, masculine singular - month
*hāʿarbayim*: definite article + common noun, masculine dual - the evenings/twilights
*miḏbar*: common noun, masculine singular construct - wilderness of
*Sînāy*: proper noun - Sinai
*ṣiwwāh*: Piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - commanded
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾeṯ-Mōšeh*: direct object marker + proper noun - Moses
*ʿāśû*: Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they did
*bənê*: common noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

*wayyaʿăśû*: they observed/kept/celebrated/performed
*rīʾšôn*: first [month]/beginning
*bên hāʿarbayim*: between the evenings/at twilight/at dusk

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Referenced Verses

Josh 5:10 : 10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
John 15:14 : 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.
Acts 26:19 : 19 Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
Heb 3:5 : 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken;
Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
Gen 6:22 : 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Gen 7:5 : 5 And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him.
Exod 12:1-9 : 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household: 4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah's passover. 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exod 39:32 : 32 Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses; so did they.
Exod 39:42 : 42 According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
Num 8:20 : 20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that Jehovah commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Num 29:40 : 40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses.
Deut 1:3 : 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;
Deut 4:5 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it.

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