Numbers 9

9And 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, ²Let the children of Israel also keep ^bthe passover at his appointed season. ³In 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. ⁴And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. ⁵And 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.

⁶And 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: ⁷And 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? ⁸And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and ^eI will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

⁹And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰Speak 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. ^11fThe fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and ^geat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ^12hThey 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. ¹³But 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. ¹⁴And 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. ¹⁶So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. ¹⁷And 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. ¹⁸At 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. ¹⁹And when the cloud ^†tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel ^tkept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not. ²⁰And 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. ²¹And 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. ²²Or 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. ²³At 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.