the descendants of Uzzah, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai,

the descendants of Gazzam, the descendants of Uzzah, the descendants of Paseah,

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On the fourteenth day of the first month is the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s Passover.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight,<n id="1" /> is a Passover offering to the <sc>Lordsc>.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Josiah observed a Passover festival for the <sc>Lordsc> in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

<p class="poetry">Just as birds hover over a nest,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will protect Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will protect and deliver it;p> <p class="poetry">as he passes over<n id="3" /> he will rescue it.p>

then you will say, &#8216;It is the sacrifice<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck<n id="2" /> Egypt and delivered our households.&#8217;&#8221; The people bowed down low<n id="3" /> to the ground,

This is how you are to eat it &#8211; dressed to travel,<n id="1" /> your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the <sc>Lord&#8217;ssc> Passover.<n id="2" />p>

Certainly<n id="1" /> no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose,<n id="2" /> or a limb too long,

If they have any kind of blemish &#8211; lameness, blindness, or anything else<n id="1" /> &#8211; you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Observe the month Abib<n id="1" /> and keep the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc> your God, for in that month<n id="2" /> he<n id="3" /> brought you out of Egypt by night.

You must sacrifice the Passover animal<n id="1" /> (from the flock or the herd) to the <sc>Lordsc> your God in the place where he<n id="2" /> chooses to locate his name.

Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> for he was a regular guest at the king&#8217;s table. But both his feet were crippled.p>

<p class="bodytext">The king ordered all the people, &#8220;Observe the Passover of the <sc>Lordsc> your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.&#8221;

Eshton was the father of Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir Nahash.<n id="1" /> These were the men of Recah.p>

<p class="bodytext">Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah worked on the Jeshanah Gate.<n id="1" /> They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

<p class="poetry">Then the lame will leap like a deer,p> <p class="poetry">the mute tongue will shout for joy;p> <p class="poetry">for water will flow<n id="1" /> in the desert,p> <p class="poetry">streams in the wilderness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When a foreigner lives<n id="1" /> with you and wants to observe the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>, all his males must be circumcised,<n id="2" /> and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land<n id="3" /> &#8211; but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

&#8220;Tell the Israelites, &#8216;If any<n id="1" /> of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may<n id="2" /> observe the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>.

If a resident foreigner lives<n id="1" /> among you and wants to keep<n id="2" /> the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have<n id="3" /> the same<n id="4" /> statute for the resident foreigner<n id="5" /> and for the one who was born in the land.&#8217;&#8221;p>