What Does Numbers 9:2 Mean in the King James?

Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Numbers 9:2 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The appointed season is a meeting set apart for deliverance to become present.

THE MEANING

The verse gives the reader a rhythm of remembrance: deliverance becomes a living reality at its appointed season. Time itself becomes a meeting place where deliverance enters the present.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It dissolves the belief that the timing of remembrance is incidental: the appointed season is part of how the encounter takes shape.

THE ROOT

מוֹעֲדוֹ

moʿado

GROWS FROM

יָעַד

to appoint, designate, or set a meeting

“appointed season” in this verse is moʿado. The English “season” sounds like a stretch on a calendar; moʿed carries the sense of a time appointed for meeting. Passover’s season is a recurring point of encounter, where deliverance becomes present again.

ALSO GROWS

noʿad: to meet, or be appointed for a meeting

נוֹעַד

This form shows the root describing an encounter, so the appointed season carries a sense of meeting as well as timing.

moʿed: appointed time, meeting, or festival

מוֹעֵד

This is the noun beneath moʿado, holding appointment and gathering together in the word for the season.

THE PATTERN

Deliverance is held in recurring appointed seasons, and its fullness arrives when its time is complete.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Exodus 13:10 · KJVThe ordinance returns year after year at its appointed season, keeping deliverance present through recurring remembrance.

But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:6 · KJVThe Passover is bound to a chosen place and season, joining remembrance of deliverance to a specific appointed time.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Galatians 4:4 · KJVThe verse presents a decisive sending that arrives when its appointed time is full.

THE THREAD

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Leviticus 23:2 · KJV

The word rendered “feasts” here is moʿadim, the plural of moʿed, the same appointed-time word beneath Numbers’ “appointed season.” The calendar word also names gatherings, making the season a meeting point.

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