Numbers 9:2–14

²“Let the Israelites keep the Passover at its appointed time.^{* 3}On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight,^o you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its regulations you shall keep it.” ⁴So Moses told the Israelites that they should keep the Passover. ⁵They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight,^p in the wilderness of Sinai. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.^{* 6}Now there were certain people who were unclean through touching a corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day^{* 7}and said to him, “Although we are unclean through touching a corpse, why must we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?” ⁸Moses said to them, “Wait, so that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”^*

⁹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites, saying: Anyone of you or your descendants who is unclean through touching a corpse or is away on a journey shall still keep the Passover to the Lord. ¹¹In the second month on the fourteenth day, at twilight,^q they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.^{* 12}They shall leave none of it until morning nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.^{* 13}But anyone who is clean and is not on a journey and yet refrains from keeping the Passover shall be cut off from the people for not presenting the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; such a one shall bear the consequences for the sin.^{* 14}Any alien residing among you who wishes to keep the Passover to the Lord shall do so according to the statute of the Passover and according to its regulation; you shall have one statute for both the resident alien and the native of the land.”^*