Chapter 9
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The LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the second year after their going out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:
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The sons of Israel kept the Passover at its appointed time.
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On the fifteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it at its appointed time. You shall observe it according to all its statutes and all its judgments.
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Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to do the Passover.
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They did the Passover on the first of the tenth day of the month between the evenings in the wilderness of Sinai according as the LORD commanded Moses; so the sons of Israel did.
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There were men who were unclean because of a human corpse, and they could not keep the Passover on that day. So they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
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The men said to him, "We are unclean because of the soul of Adam. Why should we be diminished so as not to bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time in the midst of the sons of Israel?"
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Moses said to them, "Wait, and I will hear what the LORD commands concerning you."
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, "If a man is unclean because of a corpse or is on a journey far away, he or your descendants shall keep the Passover to the LORD."
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In the second month, on the fifteenth day between the evenings, they shall make it; they shall eat it on unleavened bread and bitters.
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They shall leave none of it until morning, and they shall not break any bone in it. They shall observe it according to every statute of the Passover.
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And the man who is ritually clean and was not on a journey and did not keep the Passover shall be cut off, that soul from her people, because he did not present the sacrifice of the LORD at its appointed time. That man shall bear his sin.
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If a sojourner sojourns with you and makes Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its judgment, so he shall make it. One statute there shall be for you and for the sojourner and for the native of the land.