8:25. And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:
8:26. And they shall be the ministers of their brethren in the tabernacle of the covenant, to keep the things that are committed to their care, but not to do the works. Thus shalt thou order the Levites touching their charge.
Numbers Chapter 9
The precept of the pasch is renewed: the unclean and travellers are to observe it the second month: the camp is guided by the pillar of the cloud.
9:1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:
9:2. Let the children of Israel make the phase in its due time,
Make the phase… That is, keep the paschal solemnity, and eat the paschal lamb.
9:3. The fourteenth day of this month in the evening, according to all the ceremonies and justifications thereof.
9:4. And Moses commanded the children of Israel that they should make the phase.
9:5. And they made it in its proper time: the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in mount Sinai. The children of Israel did according to all things that the Lord had commanded Moses.