1. And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2. Let the sons of Israel also keep the passover at its appointed season.
3. In the fourteenth day of this month, between the two evenings, ye shall keep it in its appointed season; according to all its ordinance and according to all the laws thereof, shall ye keep it.
4. And Moses spoke unto the sons of Israel that they should keep the passover.
5. And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the two evenings in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.
6. And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day;
7. and those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the sons of Israel?
8. And Moses said unto them, Wait, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.
9. And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
10. Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations should be unclean by reason of a dead body or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.