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11 You will celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at dusk. You must eat the Passover animal along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 You must never leave any of the meat until morning or break any of the animal’s bones. You must follow all the rules for the Passover when you celebrate it. 13 But if you are clean[a] and not on a trip and yet don’t bother to celebrate the Passover, you must be excluded from the people. You didn’t bring your offering to Yahweh at the right time. You must suffer the consequences for your sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 9:13 “Clean” refers to anything that is presentable to God.

11 but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month(A) at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.(B) 12 They must not leave any of it till morning(C) or break any of its bones.(D) When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.(E) 13 But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people(F) for not presenting the Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

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