Numbers:9:1-14

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* Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai , in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt , saying : * "Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time . * On the fourteenth day of this month , at twilight , you shall keep it at its appointed time . According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it ." * So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover . * And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month , at twilight , in the Wilderness of Sinai ; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so the children of Israel did . * Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse , so that they could not keep the Passover on that day ; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day . * And those men said to him , "We became defiled by a human corpse . Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel ?" * And Moses said to them , "Stand still , that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you ." * Then the LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * "Speak to the children of Israel , saying : "If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse , or is far away on a journey , he may still keep the LORD 's Passover . * On the fourteenth day of the second month , at twilight , they may keep it . They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs . * They shall leave none of it until morning , nor break one of its bones . According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it . * But the man who is clean and is not on a journey , and ceases to keep the Passover , that same person shall be cut off from among his people , because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time ; that man shall bear his sin . * "And if a stranger dwells among you , and would keep the LORD 's Passover , he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony ; you shall have one ordinance , both for the stranger and the native of the land ."'

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