Numbers 9:2–14

²“Let the children of Israel keep ^athe Passover at its appointed ^btime. ³On the fourteenth day of this month, ¹at twilight, you shall ²keep it at its appointed time. According to all its ³rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.” ⁴So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. ⁵And ^cthey 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.

⁶Now there were certain men who were ^ddefiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; ^eand they came before Moses and Aaron that day. ⁷And 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?”

⁸And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that ^fI may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

⁹Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your ⁴posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the Lord’s Passover. ¹¹On ^gthe fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall ^heat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ¹²ⁱThey shall leave none of it until morning, ^jnor break one of its bones. ^kAccording to all the ⁵ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it. ¹³But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person ^lshall be cut off from among his people, because he ^mdid not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time; that man shall ⁿbear his sin.

¹⁴‘And if a stranger ⁶dwells 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; ^oyou shall have one ⁷ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.’ ”