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Today's Reading: Numbers 9

King James Version with Web Encyclopedia Links:Numbers 9

Numbers 9 deals with the Passover. Moses was told by God to celebrate the Passover at the appointed time. Some were not able to celebrate the Passover because they were ceremonially unclean because of a dead body. God allowed those who were ceremonially unclean because of a dead body, or away on a journey to still participate in the Passover. They could still celebrate but it was in the second month thus having a legitimate delay for a month. Those who were ceremonially clean and was not on a journey but neglected to observe the Passover must be cut off from the people. An alien living among the Israelites could celebrate the Passover provided he did in the prescribed manner set by God. This is encouraging to me. Because God was even concerned about the aliens, the outsider who could get close to Him. This reminds of Jesus reaching out to the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7.24-30, where she acknowledged that when Jesus said to her: 27 Jesus told her, "First I should help my own family, the Jews. It isn't right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs." 28 She replied, "That's true, Lord, but even the dogs under the table are given some crumbs from the children's plates." (NLT) The Jews had called the Gentiles dogs, in Jesus' day. She acknowledged that she had no right to asked Jesus to heal her daughter, but she was willing to accept whatever help she could get from Him.
v. 15-23 spoke about the cloud above the tabernacle. At night the cloud looked like fire. Whenever the cloud lifted up the Israelites set out, whenever, it settled, the
Israelites camped. The cloud above the tabernacle was symbolic of God's presence. The Lord directed the movement of the camp by the cloud.



Numbers 9 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Guzik on Numbers
Levites
Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader

Links to Commentaries and other References - Old Testament

Tabernacle Page

Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader
Guzik on Numbers
Peter Pett on Numbers 1-10

Links to Commentaries and other References - Numbers

Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian

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