For the thing is very near you – it is in your mouth and in your mind so that you can do it.

Then the Lord said, “You have observed correctly. This means I am watching to make sure my threats are carried out.”

The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.

They were unable to observe it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem.

“When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land – but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.