[1] And the Lord said to Moses, in the waste land of Sinai, in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, [2]
Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time. [3] In
the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the
regular time, and in the way ordered in the law. [4] And Moses gave orders
to the children of Israel to keep the Passover. [5] So they kept the
Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at
evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so
the children of Israel did. [6] And there were certain men who were unclean
because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on
that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: [7] And
these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man;
why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the
children of Israel? [8] And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord
gives me directions about you. [9] And the Lord said to Moses, [10] Say to
the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean
because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep
the Passover to the Lord: [11] In the second month, on the fourteenth day,
in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and
bitter-tasting plants; [12] Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning,
and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the
Passover. [13] But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not
keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make
the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him. [14]
And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the
Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover:
there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him
who had his birth in the land. [15] And on the day when the House was put
up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening
there was a light like fire over the House till the morning. [16] And so it
was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by
night. [17] And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then
the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud
came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents. [18] At the
order of the Lord the children of Israel went forward, and at the order of
the Lord they put up their tents: as long as the cloud was resting on the
House, they did not go away from that place. [19] When the cloud was
resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for
the order of the Lord, did not go on. [20] Sometimes the cloud was resting
on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they
kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went
on. [21] And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning;
and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey
again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud
was taken up they went forward. [22] Or if the cloud came to rest on the
House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of
Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken
up they went forward on their journey. [23] At the word of the Lord they
put up their tents, and at the word of the Lord they went forward on their
journey: they kept the orders of the Lord as he gave them by Moses.
