Holy Days
Passover
Numbers 9:1-13 The Message
Passover
9 1-3 God
spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the
second year after leaving Egypt: “Have the People of Israel celebrate
Passover at the set time. Celebrate it on schedule, on the evening of
the fourteenth day of this month, following all the rules and
procedures.”
4-5 Moses
told the People of Israel to celebrate the Passover and they did—in the
Wilderness of Sinai at evening of the fourteenth day of the first
month. The People of Israel did it all just as God had commanded Moses.6-7 But some of them couldn’t celebrate the Passover on the assigned day because they were ritually unclean on account of a corpse. So they presented themselves before Moses and Aaron on Passover and told Moses, “We have become ritually unclean because of a corpse, but why should we be barred from bringing God’s offering along with other Israelites on the day set for Passover?”
8 Moses said, “Give me some time; I’ll find out what God says in your circumstances.”
9-12 God spoke to Moses: “Tell the People of Israel, If one or another of you is ritually unclean because of a corpse, or you happen to be off on a long trip, you may still celebrate God’s Passover. But celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month at evening. Eat the lamb together with unraised bread and bitter herbs. Don’t leave any of it until morning. Don’t break any of its bones. Follow all the procedures.
13 “But a man who is ritually clean and is not off on a trip and still fails to celebrate the Passover must be cut off from his people because he did not present God’s offering at the set time. That man will pay for his sin.
Participation
in rituals is extremely important. The function of set patterns is to
remind us of the relationship we have to God. It is within a pattern that we feel the comfort of our faith and the support of the fellowship
of others that practice our faith.
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