Wednesday Bible Study: The road to nowhere

As we have noted many times, the divisions into chapters and verses were made by medieval monks, and they often seem odd. Numbers 9 is obviously two separate segments. I ' ll insert comments where I have something to note.9 TheLord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. He said,2 “Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.3 Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations. ”4 So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,5 and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as theLord commanded Moses.This seems unnecessary since the people have already been commanded to observe the passover and have been doing so.6 But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day7 and said to Moses, “We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting theLord’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”8 Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out what theLord commands concerning you. ”9 Then theLord said to Moses,10 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because o...
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