9 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.