The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one,<n id="1" /> and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues<n id="2" /> the priests, and for themselves.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten.

And they observed the Passover<n id="1" /> on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.p>

<p class="bodytext">It happened that some men<n id="1" /> who were ceremonially defiled<n id="2" /> by the dead body of a man<n id="3" /> could not keep<n id="4" /> the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

<p class="bodytext">But<n id="1" /> the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails<n id="2" /> to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people.<n id="3" /> Because he did not bring the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.<n id="4" />

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>

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day<n id="1" /> after the Passover the Israelites went out defiantly<n id="2" /> in plain sight<n id="3" /> of all the Egyptians.

but you must sacrifice it<n id="1" /> in the evening in<n id="2" /> the place where he<n id="3" /> chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law.<n id="1" /> For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc>, who is good, forgive<n id="2" />

You also say, &#8216;How tiresome it is.&#8217; You turn up your nose at it,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8220;and instead bring what is stolen, lame, or sick. You bring these things for an offering! Should I accept this from you?&#8221;<n id="1" /> asks the <sc>Lordsc>.