“1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the
first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of
Egypt, saying, 2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at
his appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye
shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it,
and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 4 And
Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the
passover. 5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the
first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that
the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. 6 And there
were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they
could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and
before Aaron on that day: 7 And those men said unto him, We [are]
defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we
may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the
children of Israel? 8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will
hear what the LORD will command concerning you. 9 And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any
man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead
body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto
the LORD. 11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall
keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs]. 12 They
shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it:
according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. 13
But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to
keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his
people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed
season, that man shall bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn
among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the
ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall
he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him
that was born in the land.”
“15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered
the tabernacle, [namely], the tent of the testimony: and at even there
was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the
morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it [by day], and the
appearance of fire by night. 17 And when the cloud was taken up from the
tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the
place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their
tents. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel
journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as
the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. 19 And
when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the
children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. 20
And [so] it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle;
according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and
according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And [so] it
was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and [that] the
cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether [it was]
by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 22 Or
[whether it were] two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud
tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel
abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they
journeyed. 23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents,
and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge
of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.” (Nu
9:1-23 AV)
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