Num 9
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And the LORD spoke unto 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:
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'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
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In the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, ye shall keep it in its appointed season;
according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof,
shall ye keep it.'
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And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
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And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month,
at dusk, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses,
so did the children of Israel.
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But there were certain men, who were unclean by 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.
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And those men said unto him: 'We are unclean by the dead body of a man; wherefore
are we to be kept back, so as not to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed
season among the children of Israel?'
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And Moses said unto them: 'Stay ye, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning
you.'
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And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
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'Speak unto 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 in a journey afar off, yet he shall
keep the passover unto the LORD;
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in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat
it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
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they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof; according
to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
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But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover,
that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he brought not the offering of
the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
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And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD:
according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof,
so shall he do; ye shall have one statute, both for the stranger, and for him that
is born in the land.'
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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle,
even the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were
the appearance of fire, until morning.
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So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
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And 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.
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At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment
of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained
encamped.
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And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel
kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
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And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment
of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they
journeyed.
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And 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.
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Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle,
abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but
when it was taken up, they journeyed.
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At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they
journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the
hand of Moses.