Num. 9:1 |
Now Jehovah had spoken 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, |
Num. 9:2 |
Let the children of Israel keep the passover at its appointed time. |
Num. 9:3 |
On the fourteenth day of this month at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances you shall keep it. |
Num. 9:4 |
Thus Moses told the children of Israel to keep the passover. |
Num. 9:5 |
And 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 Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did. |
Num. 9:6 |
But there were certain men who were unclean through [contact with] a dead person, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. |
Num. 9:7 |
And those men said to him, Although we are unclean through [contact with] a dead person, why must we be kept from presenting the offering of Jehovah at its appointed time among the children of Israel? |
Num. 9:8 |
And Moses said to them, Stay [here] so I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you. |
Num. 9:9 |
Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, |
Num. 9:10 |
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Any one of you or your descendants who becomes unclean through [contact with] a [dead] person or is on a distant journey shall still keep the passover to Jehovah. |
Num. 9:11 |
In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. |
Num. 9:12 |
They shall not leave any of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it; according to every statute of the passover they shall keep it. |
Num. 9:13 |
But the man who is clean and is not on a journey yet refrains from keeping the passover, that person shall be cut off from his people, because he did not present Jehovah's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. |
Num. 9:14 |
And if a stranger sojourns with you and keeps the passover to Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native [born] in the land. |
Num. 9:15 |
And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony; and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning. |
Num. 9:16 |
So it was always; the cloud covered it [by day,] and the appearance of fire by night. |
Num. 9:17 |
And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, then after that the children of Israel set out; and in the place where the cloud settled, there the children of Israel encamped. |
Num. 9:18 |
At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel set out, and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped; as long as the cloud settled upon the tabernacle, they remained encamped. |
Num. 9:19 |
Even when the cloud extended [its time] over the tabernacle for many days, the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah and did not set out. |
Num. 9:20 |
If sometimes the cloud was upon the tabernacle a few days, according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped; then at the commandment of Jehovah they set out. |
Num. 9:21 |
If sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out; or [if it remained] a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up, they set out. |
Num. 9:22 |
Whether it was two days or a month or a longer time that the cloud extended [its time] over the tabernacle and settled above it, the children of Israel remained encamped and did not set out; but when it was taken up, they set out. |
Num. 9:23 |
At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Jehovah they set out. They kept the charge of Jehovah according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses. |