9 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, ain 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 bthe 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 cdefiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: dand 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 eI 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 fThe fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and geat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 hThey shall leave none of it unto the morning, inor break any bone of it: kaccording to all the ordinances of the passover they lshall 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 mbrought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall nbear 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: oye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

15 *And pon the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and qat 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 rwas 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: sas 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 tkept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not. 20 And so it was, when the cloud was ua 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, xor a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel yabode 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 zkept the charge of the Lord, at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

31 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 aAvenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou bbe gathered unto thy people. 3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian. 4 †Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. 5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand carmed for war. 6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and dthe trumpets to blow in his hand. 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and ethey slew all the males. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, fEvi, and Rekem, and gZur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: hBalaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. 9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all itheir goods. 10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. 11 And jthey took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. 12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at kthe plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them lwithout the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the mofficers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the †battle. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved nall the women alive? 16 Behold, othese caused the children of Israel, through the pcounsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of qPeor, and there was ra plague among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore skill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with †him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19 And tdo ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and uwhosoever hath touched any slain, vpurify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day. 20 And vpurify all your raiment, and all †that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood. 21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses; 22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it vshall be purified wwith the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. 24 And ye shall xwash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Take the sum of the prey †that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: 27 And ydivide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: 28 And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: zone soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: 29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the Lord. 30 And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take aone portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the ||flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, bwhich keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord. 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. 32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, 33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 34 And threescore and one thousand asses, 35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him. 36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep: 37 And cthe Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. 38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which cthe Lord’s tribute was threescore and twelve. 39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which cthe Lord’s tribute was threescore and one. 40 And the persons were sixteen …