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.
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“Tell the Israelites to celebrate the Passover at the prescribed time,
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at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. Be sure to follow all my decrees and regulations concerning this celebration.”
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So Moses told the people to celebrate the Passover
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in the wilderness of Sinai as twilight fell on the fourteenth day of the month. And they celebrated the festival there, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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But some of the men had been ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, so they could not celebrate the Passover that day. They came to Moses and Aaron that day