1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai desert in the first month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt:
2. Let the Israelites keep the Passover at its appointed time.
3. On the fourteenth day of this month at twilight you will keep it at its appointed time. Keep it according to all its regulations and its customary practices.
4. Moses instructed the Israelites to keep the Passover.