Numbers 9:4–11

⁴So Moses ¹told the sons of Israel to observe the Passover.

^5aThey observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; ^baccording to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

⁶But there were some men who were ^aunclean because of the ¹dead person, so that they could not observe Passover on that day; so ^bthey came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

⁷Those men said to him, “Though we are unclean because of the ¹dead person, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?”

⁸Moses therefore said to them, “^1aWait, 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 ¹person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the Lord.

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.