Numbers 9:1-14
The Passover
9Thus Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in athe first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2“Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at aits appointed time. 3“On the fourteenth day of this month, 1at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its judgments.” 4So Moses 1told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover. 5aAnd they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; baccording to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did. 6But there were some men who were aunclean because of a 1dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; so bthey came near before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7And those men said to him, “We are unclean because of a 1dead person. But why are we restrained from bringing near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?” 8Moses therefore said to them, “1,aWait, and I will listen to what Yahweh will command concerning you.”
9Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 10“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead 1person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover to Yahweh. 11‘In the second month on the afourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they bshall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12‘They ashall leave none of it until morning bnor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall celebrate it. 13‘aBut the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet 1neglects to celebrate the Passover, that 2person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not bring near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time. That man bwill bear his sin. 14‘aIf a sojourner sojourns among you and 1celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its judgment, so he shall do; you shall have bone statute, both for the sojourner and for the native of the land.’”