Numbers 9:4

4 Moses told the People of Israel to celebrate the Passover

Numbers 9:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 9:4

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
keep the passover.
] The time now drawing nigh for the observation of it, it being now almost a year since their coming out of Egypt.

Numbers 9:4 In-Context

2 "Have the People of Israel celebrate Passover at the set time.

3 Celebrate it on schedule, on the evening of the fourteenth day of this month, following all the rules and procedures."

4 Moses told the People of Israel to celebrate the Passover

5 and they did - in the Wilderness of Sinai at evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. The People of Israel did it all just as God had commanded Moses.

6 But some of them couldn't celebrate the Passover on the assigned day because they were ritually unclean on account of a corpse. So they presented themselves before Moses and Aaron on Passover