Numbers 9

1And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,

2And let the sons of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.

3On the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances you shall keep it.

4So Moses told the sons of Israel to keep the Passover.

5So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.

6There were men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came near before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

7And those men said to him, “We are unclean by a human corpse. Why should we be kept from presenting the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?”

8And Moses said to them, “Wait, and I will hear what Yahweh commands concerning you.”

9Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

10Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any man becomes unclean by a dead body, or is on a distant journey, whether among you or among your generations, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.

11In the second month, on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

12They shall leave none of it until morning, and they shall not break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

13But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, yet fails to keep the Passover—that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present Yahweh’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

14And if a sojourner is staying with you and would keep the Passover to Yahweh, he shall do it according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance; so he shall do it. One statute shall be for you, for the sojourner, and for the native of the land.

15On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and in the evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

16So it was continually: the cloud would cover it, and the appearance of fire by night.

17Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, after that the sons of Israel would set out; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the sons of Israel would camp.

18At the command of Yahweh the sons of Israel set out, and at the command of Yahweh they camped. All the days that the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained camped.

19When the cloud remained over the tabernacle for many days, the sons of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh and did not set out.

20Sometimes the cloud would remain over the tabernacle for a number of days; at the command of Yahweh they would camp, and at the command of Yahweh they would set out.

21And sometimes the cloud would remain from evening until morning; when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they would set out. Or if it remained for a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up, they would set out.

22Whether it was two days, or a month, or longer, when the cloud remained over the tabernacle, dwelling over it, the sons of Israel would camp and would not set out; but when it was lifted up, they would set out.

23At the command of Yahweh they camped, and at the command of Yahweh they set out. They kept the charge of Yahweh at the command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.