Chapter 9
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai , in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt , saying ,
2 "Let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season .
3 On the fourteenth day of this month , at evening , you shall keep it in its appointed season . You shall keep it according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances ."
4 Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover .
5 They kept the Passover in the first month , on the fourteenth day of the month at evening , in the wilderness of Sinai . According to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so the children of Israel did .
6 There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man , so that they could not keep the Passover on that day , and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day .
7 Those men said to him , " We are unclean because of the dead body of a man . Why are we kept back , that we may not offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season amongst the children of Israel ?"
8 Moses answered them , " Wait , that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you ."
9 The LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,
10 " Say to the children of Israel , ‘ If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body , or is on a journey far away , he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD .
11 In the second month , on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it ; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs .
12 They shall leave none of it until the morning , nor break a bone of it . According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it .
13 But the man who is clean , and is not on a journey , and fails to keep the Passover , that soul shall be cut off from his people . Because he didn’t offer the offering of the LORD in its appointed season , that man shall bear his sin .
14 "‘ If a foreigner lives amongst you and desires to keep the Passover to the LORD , then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover , and according to its ordinance . You shall have one statute , both for the foreigner and for him who is born in the land.’"
15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up , the cloud covered the tabernacle , even the Tent of the Testimony . At evening it was over the tabernacle , as it were the appearance of fire, until morning .
16 So it was continually . The cloud covered it , and the appearance of fire by night .
17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent , then after that the children of Israel travelled; and in the place where the cloud remained , there the children of Israel encamped .
18 At the commandment of the LORD , the children of Israel travelled, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped . As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped .
19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days , then the children of Israel kept the LORD ’s command , and didn’t travel.
20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle ; then according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped , and according to the commandment of the LORD they travelled.
21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning ; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning , they travelled; or by day and by night , when the cloud was taken up , they travelled.
22 Whether it was two days , or a month , or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle , remaining on it , the children of Israel remained encamped , and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up , they travelled.
23 At the commandment of the LORD they encamped , and at the commandment of the LORD they travelled. They kept the LORD ’s command , at the commandment of the LORD by Moses .