Numbers 9:14

וְכִֽי־יָגוּר אִתְּכֶם גֵּר וְעָשָֽׂה פֶסַח לַֽיהוָה כְּחֻקַּת הַפֶּסַח וּכְמִשְׁפָּטוֹ כֵּן יַעֲשֶׂה חֻקָּה אַחַת יִהְיֶה לָכֶם וְלַגֵּר וּלְאֶזְרַח הָאָֽרֶץ׃ פ

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Hebrew

וְכִֽי־יָג֨וּר אִתְּכֶ֜ם גֵּ֗ר וְעָ֤שָֽׂה פֶ֙סַח֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה כְּחֻקַּ֥ת הַפֶּ֛סַח וּכְמִשְׁפָּט֖וֹ כֵּ֣ן יַעֲשֶׂ֑ה חֻקָּ֤ה אַחַת֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֔ם וְלַגֵּ֖ר וּלְאֶזְרַ֥ח הָאָֽרֶץ׃ פ

Greek (Septuagint)

ἐὰν δὲ προσέλθῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς προσήλυτος ἐν τῇ γῇ ὑμῶν καὶ τὸ πάσχα κυρίῳ, κατὰ τὸν νόμον τοῦ πάσχα καὶ κατὰ τῆ αὐτοῦ ποιήσει αὐτό· νόμος εἷς ἔσται ὑμῖν καὶ τῷ προσηλύτῳ καὶ τῆς γῆς.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Peregrinus quoque et advena si fuerint apud vos, facient Phase Domino juxta cæremonias et justificationes ejus. Præceptum idem erit apud vos tam advenæ quam indigenæ.

Spanish

“‘Si un extranjero vive entre ustedes y desea celebrar la Pascua a Yehová, lo hará según el estatuto de la Pascua y según su ordenanza. Tendrán un solo estatuto, tanto para el extranjero como para el nacido en el país’”.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y si morare con vosotros peregrino, é hiciere la pascua á Jehová, conforme al rito de la pascua y conforme á sus leyes así la hará: un mismo rito tendréis, así el peregrino como el natural de la tierra.

English

If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’” The Cloud above the Tabernacle (Exodus 40:34–38)

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 9:14 extends the Passover law to any ger ("sojourner", H1616) residing among the Israelites: if such a person wishes to keep the Passover for Yehovah, the same statute and procedure apply to him as to the native-born. The verse closes by stating that one single legal norm covers both the resident foreigner and the ezrach ("native-born", H0249) of the land.

Key words

yaGur ("he will sojourn", H1481A) — qal imperfect, marking the sojourning as a possible/future condition, introduced by khi ("if", H3588A).
ger ("a sojourner", H1616) — singular noun, the subject of the conditional clause; a person residing among the Israelites without native status.
'aSah ("he will observe", H6213H) — qal sequential perfect, continuing the narrative logic begun by the imperfect yaGur: once sojourning is established, the act of "doing" Passover follows.
chuKat ("statute of", H2708) construct form — links directly to ha-Pesach ("the passover", H6453), forming "the statute of the passover" as the binding rule.
ezRach ("native-born of", H0249) construct form — paired with ha-Aretz ("the land", H0776G), designating the person born in the land, set in parallel with ger.

What the text says

The verse is built as a conditional-sequential chain: the particle khi ("if", H3588A) governs the imperfect verb yaGur ("he will sojourn", H1481A), establishing the hypothetical situation of a ger living among the community. The vav on 'aSah ("he will observe", H6213H) is a sequential (vav-consecutive-like) perfect that carries the narrative forward from the conditional into the resulting action — the sojourner "doing" the Passover. The clause "ken ya'aSeh" ("so he will do", H6213A imperfect) restates the verb 'asah in a different form, reinforcing that the sojourner's performance must match the statute exactly, "according to" (ke-, H9004) both the chuqqah ("statute", H2708) and mishpat ("judgment/ordinance", H4941G) of the Passover.

The final sentence, "chuqqah achat yihyeh lakhem" ("one statute it will be for you", H2708 + H0259 + H1961), uses the numeral achat ("one", H0259) to stress a single, undivided legal norm, extended by two prepositional phrases: "to the ger" (H1616) and "to the ezrach of the land" (H0249 construct + H0776G). This construct pairing (ezrach ha-aretz) contrasts syntactically with the earlier construct chain chuqqat ha-pesach / mishpato, both patterns showing the Hebrew preference for construct (genitive-like) relationships rather than separate adjectives.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate renders the single Hebrew ger (H1616) with two Latin terms, "Peregrinus quoque et advena," doubling the term where the Hebrew text has one noun; later it uses "advena" and "indigena" for the pair ger/ezrach. The LXX uses a single term, prosēlytos, for ger, and renders ezrach ha-aretz simply as "τῆς γῆς" ("of the land"), without a distinct word corresponding to "native-born." The LXX also compresses the clause containing 'aSah ("he will observe", H6213H) into a nominal phrase, "καὶ τὸ πάσχα κυρίῳ," without an explicit verb matching the Hebrew's 'asah.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.