1. During the first month of Israel's second year in the Sinai Desert, the Lord had told Moses
2. to say to the people, “Celebrate Passover
3. in the evening of the fourteenth day of this month and do it by following all the regulations.”
4-5. Moses told the people what the Lord had said, and they celebrated Passover there in the desert in the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
6. Some people in Israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the Lord, and they could not celebrate Passover. But they asked Moses and Aaron,
7. “Even though we have touched a dead body, why can't we celebrate Passover and offer sacrifices to the Lord at the same time as everyone else?”
8. Moses said, “Wait here while I go into the sacred tent and find out what the Lord says about this.”