Numbers 1:1 provides a similar dating formula for God's speech, marking the second month while Numbers 9:1 says the first month of the same year.

Numbers 10:11 records the cloud lifting in the second month, the next chronological event after the Passover in Numbers 9:1.

Numbers 10:12 describes the Israelites setting out from Sinai, directly following the events of Numbers 9:1.

Exodus 40:17 records the tabernacle's erection on the first day of the first month of the second year, the exact month and year as Numbers 9:1's date.

Exodus 40:2 commands the tabernacle's erection on the first day of the first month—the tabernacle that is the setting for Numbers 9:1's Passover instruction.