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Numbers 9:5-12 Modern English Version (MEV)

5. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at evening in the Wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

6. There were men who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so 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 to 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 at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”

8. And Moses said to them, “Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

9. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

10. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your posterity is unclean because of a dead body, or is far off on a journey, he will still keep the Passover to the Lord.

11. The fourteenth day of the second month at evening they will keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12. They will leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they will keep it.

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