Num 9
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And YHWH 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,
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Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
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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 its ordinances,
shall you keep it.
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And Moses spoke to 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 even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that YHWH commanded Moses, so
did the children of Israel.
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And 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:
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and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: wherefore
are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of YHWH in its appointed season
among the children of Israel?
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And Moses said to them, Stay you, that I may hear what YHWH will command concerning
you.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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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 YHWH.
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In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat
it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
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they shall leave none of it to 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 forbears to keep the passover,
that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of
YHWH 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 to YHWH; 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 him whom 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 it 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 YHWH the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment
of YHWH 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 YHWH, and journeyed not.
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And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the
commandment of YHWH they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of YHWH
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 YHWH they encamped, and at the commandment of YHWH they journeyed:
they kept the charge of YHWH, at the commandment of YHWH by Moses.