Numbers 9 in the early church
14 passages quote, allude to, or echo Numbers 9, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.
Verses: 1 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 15 · 17
Numbers 9:1
In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:1–5 | Homilies on Numbers 27.8 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Num 9:1–5 | Pilgrimage (Itinerarium) 5.9 · Egeria | allusion, high confidence | ca. 381-395 |
| Num 9:1–11 | Tractates 1 · Gaudentius of Brescia | allusion, high confidence | ca. 397-410 |
| Num 9:1–13 | Numbers, lines 151–175 · Cyprianus Gallus | allusion, high confidence | early 5th cent. |
Numbers 9:10
“Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:10 | Homilies on Exodus 7.4 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
Numbers 9:11
Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:11 | Apostolic Tradition 33 · Hippolytus of Rome | allusion, medium confidence | early third century |
| Num 9:11 | Homilies on Exodus 7.4 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
Numbers 9:12
they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:12 | Demonstration 12.1 · Aphrahat | allusion, medium confidence | 337-345 |
Numbers 9:13
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:13 | Letter to Adelphius 7 · Athanasius of Alexandria | allusion, low confidence | ca. 370 |
| Num 9:13 | Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 50.1.4 · Epiphanius of Salamis | allusion, low confidence | 374-377 |
Numbers 9:15
On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:15–23 | Tractates on the Psalms 118.5.2 · Hilary of Poitiers | allusion, high confidence | ca. 360–367 |
| Num 9:15 | City of God 10.17 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, high confidence | 413–426 |
Numbers 9:17
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Num 9:17 | Exposition of Psalm 118 5.3.2 · Ambrose | allusion, high confidence | ca. 386-397 |
| Num 9:17 | Homilies on Matthew 6.2 · John Chrysostom | allusion, high confidence | ca. 390 |