Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Ver. 2. Keep the passover.] This passover; for they kept no more but this, till they came into the land of Canaan, Jos 5:10 Exo 12:25 because of their often and uncertain removes. The feast of tabernacles likewise was for many ages omitted; or at least not in due manner observed, as by dwelling in booths, reading the book of the law, &c., Neh 8:16-18 which a man would wonder at. But Vexatio dat intellectum: those Jews were newly returned from captivity.