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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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In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

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