And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes. Then Aaron offered them as a wave offering before Jehovah, and Aaron made expiation for them to cleanse them.

And after this the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron and before his sons; as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

This is what applies to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

And from the age of fifty years they shall retire from the service in the work and shall serve no more.

But they may minister to their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, but they themselves shall do no service. Thus you shall do with the Levites concerning their charges.

Now Jehovah had spoken to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Let the children of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time.

On the fourteenth day of this month at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances you shall keep it.

Thus Moses told the children of Israel to keep the passover.

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

But there were certain men who were unclean through contact with a dead person, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

And those men said to him, Although we are unclean through contact with a dead person, why must we be kept from presenting the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time among the children of Israel?

And Moses said to them, Stay here so I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Any one of you or your descendants who becomes unclean through contact with a dead person or is on a distant journey shall still keep the passover to Jehovah.

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

They shall not leave any of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to every statute of the passover they shall keep it.

But the man who is clean and is not on a journey yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present Jehovah's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

And if a stranger sojourns with you and keeps the passover to Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native born in the land.