The later Jews speak of this as the “little Passover.” Coming, as it did, a month after the proper Passover, it afforded ample time for a man to purify himself from legal defilement, as also to return from any but a very distant journey. Compare Hezekiah’s act 2 Chronicles 30:1-3.
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Numbers 9:11
11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.