[1] And 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 people of Israel keep the passover at its appointed
time. [3] On the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, you shall
keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its
ordinances you shall keep it." [4] So Moses told the people of Israel that
they should keep the passover. [5] And they kept the passover in the first
month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the
wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
people of Israel did. [6] And there were certain men who were unclean
through touching 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]
and those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching the dead body
of a man; why are we kept from offering the LORD's offering at its
appointed time among the people of Israel?" [8] And Moses said to them,
"Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you." [9] The
LORD said to Moses, [10] "Say to the people of Israel, If any man of you or
of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is afar off
on a journey, he shall still keep the passover to the LORD. [11] In the
second month on the fourteenth day in the 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 for the passover they shall keep it. [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 offer the
LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. [14]
And if a stranger sojourns among you, and will keep the passover to the
LORD, 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." [15] On the day that the tabernacle was set
up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at
evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until
morning. [16] So it was continually; the cloud covered it by day, and the
appearance of fire by night. [17] And whenever the cloud was taken up from
over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out; and in the place
where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel encamped. [18] At
the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of
the LORD they encamped; as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle,
they remained in camp. [19] Even when the cloud continued over the
tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and
did not set out. [20] Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the
tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp;
then according to the command of the LORD they set out. [21] And sometimes
the cloud remained from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken
up in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night,
when the cloud was taken up they set out. [22] Whether it was two days, or
a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle,
abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out;
but when it was taken up they set out. [23] At the command of the LORD they
encamped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the charge
of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.
