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2-3 “The people of Israel must celebrate the Passover annually on April first,[a] beginning in the evening. Be sure to follow all of my instructions concerning this celebration.”

4-5 So Moses announced that the Passover celebration would begin on the evening of April first, there in the Sinai peninsula, just as the Lord had commanded.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 9:2 on April first, literally, “on the fourteenth day of the first month” (of the Hebrew calendar). This corresponds approximately to our first day of April.

Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month,(A) in accordance with all its rules and regulations.(B)

So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,(C) and they did so in the Desert of Sinai(D) at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.(E) The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.(F)

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