Which if we neglect, we must be cut off; and if we keep it in these circumstances, we must also be cut off. What shall we do? The passover is called an offering of the Lord, because it was both killed and eaten in obedience to God's command, and to God's honour, and as a thank-offering to God for his great mercies.
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Numbers 9:7
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?