^{2 Ref} `Also, the sons of Israel prepare the passover in its appointed season;

^{3 Ref} in the fourteenth day of this month between the evenings ye prepare it in its appointed season; according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances ye prepare it.'

⁴ And Moses speaketh unto the sons of Israel to prepare the passover,

^{5 Ref} and they prepare the passover in the first `month', on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done.

^{6 Ref} And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,

^{7 Ref} and those men say unto him, `We are defiled by the body of a man; why are we withheld so as not to bring near the offering of Jehovah in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel?'

^{8 Ref} And Moses saith unto them, `Stand ye, and I hear what Jehovah hath commanded concerning you.'

⁹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

^{10 Ref} `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Though any man is unclean by a body or in a distant journey (of you or of your generations), yet he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah;

^{11 Ref} in the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings they prepare it; with unleavened and bitter things they eat it;

^{12 Ref} they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.

^{13 Ref} `And the man who is clean, and hath not been on a journey, and hath ceased to prepare the passover, even that person hath been cut off from his people; because the offering of Jehovah he hath not brought near, in its appointed season, that man doth bear his sin.

^{14 Ref} `And when a sojourner sojourneth with you, then he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the passover, and according to its ordinance, so he doth; one statute is to you, even to a sojourner, and to a native of the land.'