Numbers 9:12
They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, a nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- non relinquent ex eo quippiam usque mane, et os ejus non confringent : omnem ritum Phase observabunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ καταλείψουσιν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ πρωί, καὶ ὀστοῦν οὐ συντρίψουσιν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ· κατὰ τὸν νόμον τοῦ πάσχα ποιήσουσιν αὐτό.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לֹֽא יַשְׁאִ֤ירוּ מִמֶּ֨נּוּ֙ עַד בֹּ֔קֶר וְעֶ֖צֶם לֹ֣א יִשְׁבְּרוּ ב֑וֹ כְּכָל חֻקַּ֥ת הַפֶּ֖סַח יַעֲשׂ֥וּ אֹתֽוֹ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Reply to Faustus the Manichæan, Faustus willing to believe not only that the Jewish but that all Gentile prophets wrote of Christ, if it should be proved; but he would none the less insist upon rejecting their superstitions. Augustin maintains that all Moses wrote is of Christ, and that his writings must be either accepted or rejected as a whole
16. You ought not to say, in disparagement of Moses, that he was a sinner, and that he was put to death on a mountain because his God was angry with him. For Moses could glory in the Lord as his Saviour, who is also the Saviour of him who says, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." Moses, indeed, is accused by the voice of God, because his faith showed signs of weakness when he was commanded to draw water out of the rock. In this he may have sinned as Peter did, when from the weakness of his faith he became afraid in the midst of the waves. But we cannot think from this, that he who, as the Gospel tells us, was counted worthy to be present with the Lord along with holy Elias on the mount of transfiguration, was separated from the eternal fellowship of the saints. The sacred history shows in what favor he was with God even after his sin. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John, John 19.16-18
Ver. 36 . “A bone of Him shall not be broken.” ( Ex. xii. 46; Num. ix. 12 .)