[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of
the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, [2]
Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed
season. [3] In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, you shall keep it
in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according
to all the ordinances of it, shall you keep it. [4] Moses spoke to 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 even,
in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses,
so did the children of Israel. [6] There were certain men, who were unclean
by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the
Passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that
day: [7] and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead
body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of
Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel? [8] Moses said
to them, Stay you, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.
[9] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [10] Speak to the children of Israel,
saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason
of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover
to Yahweh. [11] In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they
shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
[12] they shall leave none of it to 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 forbears to keep the
Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he didn`t
offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear
his sin. [14] If a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the
Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according
to the ordinance of it, so shall he do: you shall have one statute, both
for the sojourner, and for him who is born in the land. [15] On the day
that the tent was reared up the cloud covered the tent, even the tent of
the testimony: and at even it was on the tent as it were the appearance of
fire, until morning. [16] So it was always: 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 journeyed: and in the
place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. [18] At
the commandment of Yahweh the children of Israel journeyed, and at the
commandment of Yahweh they encamped: as long as the cloud abode on the tent
they remained encamped. [19] When the cloud stayed on the tent many days,
then the children of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, and didn`t travel.
[20] Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tent; then according to the
commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the
commandment of Yahweh they journeyed. [21] Sometimes the cloud was from
evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they
journeyed: or [if it continued] by day and by night, when the cloud was
taken up, they journeyed. [22] Whether it were two days, or a month, or a
year, that the cloud stayed on the tent, abiding thereon, the children of
Israel remained encamped, and didn`t travel; but when it was taken up, they
traveled. [23] At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the
commandment of Yahweh they journeyed: they kept the charge of Yahweh, at
the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
