Leviticus 23:4-8 - The Passover

⁴ These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover; ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work. ⁸ And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, ² Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time. ³ In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law. ⁴ And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover. ⁵ So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

⁶ And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: ⁷ And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?

⁸ And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.

⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰ Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord: ¹¹ In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants; ¹² Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

¹³ But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.

¹⁴ And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.