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Numbers-9
The Observance of the Passover
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the
first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover at his appointed
season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his
appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep
the Passover.
5 And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month
at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of
a man, that they could not keep the Passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a
man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Here we have,
I. An order given for the solemnization of the Passover, the day twelvemonth after they came out of Egypt, on the fourteenth day of the first month of the second year, some days before they were numbered, for that was done in the beginning of the second month. Observe,
1. God gave particular orders for the keeping of this Passover, otherwise (it should seem) they would not have kept it, for, in the first institution of this ordinance, it was appointed to be kept when they should come into the land of promise, Ex 12:25. And, no Passover till they came to Canaan, Jos 5:10.