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9:1-5 The Second Passover. The first Passover took place in Egypt just before the Israelites escaped. It was unique in that it occurred before the saving event of the exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea; all subsequent Passover celebrations recalled these momentous events, but inevitably many of the features of the first Passover were missing. So this Passover, celebrated a year later at Sinai, was the first of many that were essentially retrospective commemorations of the first Passover in Egypt. On the fourteenth day (vv. 3, 5). This places the celebration of the Passover between the events described in chs. 7-8 and the censuses of chs. 1-4. according to all its statutes (9:3). See Exodus 12-13, which both describes the original Egyptian Passover and gives many regulations about subsequent Passover celebrations.