¹⁰ “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body^(A) or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate^(B) the Lord’s Passover,

¹³ But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people^(A) for not presenting the Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

¹⁹ “Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed^(A) must stay outside the camp seven days.^(B) On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves^(C) and your captives.

²⁰ Purify every garment^(A) as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.^(B)”

¹⁷ Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill^(A) the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs^[a] to the Lord.

Jesus Presented in the Temple

²² When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses,^(A) Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord