Num 9
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And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina in the second year after they
had gone forth from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying,
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Speak, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its season.
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On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, you shall keep it in its season;
you shall keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance.
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And Moses ordered the children of Israel to sacrifice the passover,
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on the fourteenth day of the first month in the wilderness of Sina, as the Lord appointed
Moses, so the children of Israel did.
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And there came men who were unclean by reason of a dead body, and they were not able
to keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.
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And those men said to Gr. him Moses, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: shall we therefore fail
to offer the gift to the Lord in its season in the midst of the children of Israel?
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And Moses said to them, stand there, and I will hear what charge the Lord will give
concerning you.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of
a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall
then keep the passover to the Lord,
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in the second month, on the fourteenth day; in the evening they shall offer it, with
unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.
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They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it;
they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the passover.
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And whatever man shall be clean, and is not far off on a journey, and shall fail to
keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he has not
offered the gift to the Lord in its season: that man shall bear his iniquity.
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And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the passover
to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the passover and according to
its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the
native of the land.
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And in the day in which the tabernacle was pitched the cloud covered the tabernacle,
the Gr. house place of the testimony; and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle as the appearance
of fire till the morning.
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So it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by
night.
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And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel
departed; and in whatever place the cloud rested, there the children of Israel encamped.
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The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command
of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle,
the children of Israel shall encamp.
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And whenever the cloud shall be drawn over the tabernacle for many days, then the
children of Israel shall keep the charge of God, and they shall not remove.
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And it shall be, whenever the cloud overshadows the tabernacle Gr. days by number a number of days, they shall encamp by the
word of the Lord, and shall remove by
the command of the Lord.
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And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the
morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or
by night.
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When the cloud continues Or, more than a month a full month overshadowing the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp,
and
shall not depart.
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For they shall depart by the command of the Lord:—they kept the charge of the Lord
by the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.