1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:
2. Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,
3. The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof.
4. And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase.
5. And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded Moses.
6. But behold some who were unclean by occasion of the soul of a men, who could not make the phase on that day, coming to Moses and Aaron,
7. Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel?
8. And Moses answered them: Stay that I may consult the Lord what he will ordain concerning you.
9. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: