Numbers 9:1-14

1Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in 1the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2“Now the sons of Israel are to 2celebrate the Passover at 3its appointed time. 3On the fourteenth day of this month, 4at twilight, you shall celebrate it at its appointed time; you shall celebrate it in accordance with all its statutes and all its ordinances.” 4So Moses 5told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover. 5And 6they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; 7in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did. 6But there were some men who were 8unclean because of contact with a 9dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; and 10they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 7Those men said to him, “Though we are unclean because of a 11dead person, why are we kept from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?” 8Moses then said to them, “1213Wait, and I will listen to what the Lord will command concerning you.”

9Then the Lord 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 14person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover to the Lord. 11In the second month on the 15fourteenth day at twilight, they shall celebrate it; they 16shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12They 17shall not leave any of it until morning, 18nor break a bone of it; they shall celebrate it in accordance with the whole statute of the Passover. 1319But the person who is clean and is not on a journey, yet refrains from celebrating the Passover, that 20person shall then be cut off from his people, because he did not present the offering of the Lord at its appointed time. That person 21will bear the responsibility for his sin. 14And 22if a stranger resides among you and 23celebrates the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and its ordinance, so he shall celebrate it; you shall have 24the 25same statute, both for the stranger and for the native of the land.’”