IN the wildernesse] The Passover was kept but this once in the wildernesse; and then (as some thinke) for want of meale to make unleavened bread, they kept it with Manna; yet being here not very farre from Midian, they might be furnished thence with so much as might serve the turne for one Passeover; which is brought in here, though it were celebrated before the numbring of the people in the beginning of this Booke; for this was in the first moneth of the second yeare after the peoples departure out of Egypt; and the numbring of the people was in the second moneth of the second yeare, Chap. 1. 1. For the Spirit that indicted this Booke, with the rest of the Scripture, tyeth himselfe to the observation of truth, not to the order of time, which upon good reason may be sometimes left, though that reason doe not appeare.