Study Desk

Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in ^(C1)the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

"Now the sons of Israel are to ^(F1)celebrate the Passover at ^(C1)its appointed time.

"On the fourteenth day of this month, ^(F1)at twilight, you shall celebrate it at its appointed time; you shall celebrate it in accordance with all its statutes and all its ordinances."

So Moses ^(F1)told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.

And ^(C1)they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; ^(C2)in accordance with everything that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

But there were some men who were ^(C1)unclean because of contact with a ^(F1)dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; and ^(C2)they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Those men said to him, "Though we are unclean because of a ^(F1)dead person, why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?"

Moses then said to them, "^(F1)(C1)Wait, and I will listen to what the LORD will command concerning you."

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead ^(F1)person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover to the LORD.

'In the second month on the ^(C1)fourteenth day at twilight, they shall celebrate it; they ^(C2)shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

'They ^(C1)shall not leave any of it until morning, ^(C2)nor break a bone of it; they shall celebrate it in accordance with the whole statute of the Passover.

'^(C1)But the person who is clean and is not on a journey, yet refrains from celebrating the Passover, that ^(F1)person shall then be cut off from his people, because he did not present the offering of the LORD at its appointed time. That person ^(C2)will bear the responsibility for his sin.

'And ^(C1)if a stranger resides among you and ^(F1)celebrates the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and its ordinance, so he shall celebrate it; you shall have ^(F2)the ^(C2)same statute, both for the stranger and for the native of the land.'"