“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.”
'In the evening twilight, on the fourteenth day of this month, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its regulations you shall keep it' — the temporal precision (evening twilight, the fourteenth day) echoes Exodus 12's original command. The repeated 'appointed time' (bemoed) and 'statutes...regulations' (chukoth...mishpatim) establish that this second Passover replicates the first exactly. The wilderness setting does not diminish the Passover's ceremonial rigor; freedom's commemoration demands fidelity to form.
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