1. THE Lord said to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt,
2. Let the Israelites keep the Passover at its appointed time.
3. On the fourteenth day of this month in the evening, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and ordinances you shall keep it.
4. So Moses told the Israelites they should keep the Passover.
5. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month in the evening in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.
6. And there were certain men who were defiled by touching the dead body of a man, so they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
7. Those men said to [Moses], We are defiled by touching the dead body. Why are we prevented from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?
8. And Moses said to them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.
9. And the Lord said to Moses,
10. Say to the Israelites, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of touching a dead body or is far off on a journey, still he shall keep the Passover to the Lord.