Numbers 9Book 4 of 66 · 23 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after their departure from the land of Egypt, saying:
  2. Let the children of Israel observe the Passover at its appointed time.
  3. On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time according to all its statutes and ceremonies you shall keep it.
  4. So Moses told the children of Israel that they should observe the Passover.
  5. And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
  6. Now there were certain men who were unclean by touching a human corpse, so that they could not observe the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron that same day.
  7. And those men said to him, "We became defiled by a human corpse. Why should we be kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?"
  8. And Moses said to them, "Wait here, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you."
  9. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  10. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a distant journey, he may still keep the LORD's Passover.
  11. On the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight they shall observe it, eating it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
  12. They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break any of its bones. According to all the statutes of the Passover they shall observe it.
  13. But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the LORD at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
  14. And if a foreigner dwells among you and would observe the LORD's Passover, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance; you shall have one statute, both for the foreigner and the native of the land.
  15. Now on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.
  16. So it was continuously: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
  17. Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would set out on their journey, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the children of Israel would pitch their tents.
  18. At the command of the LORD the children of Israel would set out, and at the command of the LORD they would camp; as long as the cloud rested above the tabernacle they remained encamped.
  19. Even when the cloud lingered long, many days above the tabernacle, the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.
  20. Sometimes the cloud remained above the tabernacle only a few days: according to the command of the LORD they would remain encamped, and according to the command of the LORD they would set out.
  21. So it was, when the cloud remained only from evening until morning, when the cloud lifted in the morning, then they would set out; whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they would journey.
  22. Whether it was two days, a month, or a year that the cloud lingered above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would remain camped and not set out; but when it lifted, they would journey.
  23. At the command of the LORD they remained encamped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the charge of the LORD, according to the command of the LORD through Moses.