9:1-14 · God reminds Moses in the first month of the second year after they have left Egypt to observe the Passover festival at its proper time on the night of the fourteenth day of the month (9:1–3). This reminder chronologically precedes the Lord’s command on the first day of the second month to carry out a military census (chap. 1). But the book’s placement of the second Passover just before a second exodus, this time from the Sinai wilderness (chap. 10), gives the festival an impact of resumptive repetition: In the continuation of God’s deliverance from Egypt, his people are picking up where they left off and continuing to the promis…