Numbers 9:1-10 ▼

1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai during the first month of the second year that they had left Egypt,

2 |The Israelis are to observe the Passover at its appointed time

3 on the fourteenth day of this month. You are to observe it at this appointed time between the evenings. You are to observe it according to all its decrees and laws.|

4 So Moses instructed the Israelis to observe the Passover.

5 They observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai. The Israelis did everything that the LORD had commanded through Moses.

6 But there were men who couldn't observe the Passover that day because they had come in contact with a corpse. That very day, they approached Moses and Aaron

7 and asked, |Why can't we bring an offering to the LORD at the appointed time among the Israelis, even though we are unclean because we came in contact with a corpse?|

8 |Wait while I hear what the LORD has to say about you,| Moses replied.

9 Then the LORD told Moses,

10 |Instruct the Israelis that when any of you or your descendants becomes unclean due to contact with a corpse, or if he is on a long journey, he nevertheless is to observe the LORD's Passover.