Numbers Chapter 9

Numbers Chapter 9
1 And the Lord spake 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, 2 The
children of Israel shall also celebrate the
Passover at the time appointed thereunto.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month at
even, ye shall keep it in his due season:
according to all the ordinances of it, and
according to all the ceremonies thereof
shall ye keep it.
4 Then Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, to celebrate the Passover. 5 And
they kept the Passover in the fourteenth
day of the first month at even in the
wilderness of Sinai: according to all that
the Lord had commanded Moses, so did
the children of Israel.
6 And certain men were defiled by a
dead man, that they might not keep the
Passover the same day: and they came
before Moses and before Aaron the
same day.
7 And those men said unto him, We are
defiled by a dead man: wherefore are
we kept back that we may not offer an
offering unto the Lord in the time
thereunto appointed among the children
of Israel?
8 Then Moses said unto them, Stand
still, and I will hear what the Lord will
command concerning you.
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say, If any among you, or of your
posterity shall be unclean by the reason
of a corpse, or be in a long journey, he
shall keep the Passover unto the Lord.
11 In the fourteenth day of the second
month at even they shall keep it: with
unleavened bread and sour herbs shall
they eat it.
12 They shall leave none of it unto the
morning, nor break any bone of it:
according to all the ordinance of the
Passover shall they keep it. 13 But the
man that is clean and is not in a journey,
and is negligent to keep the Passover, the
same person shall be cut off from his
people: because he brought not the
offering of the Lord in his due season,
that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger dwell among you,
and will keep the Passover unto the
Lord, as the ordinance of the Passover,
and as the manner thereof is, so shall he
do: ye shall have one law both for the
stranger, and for him that was born in the
same land.
15 And when the tabernacle was reared
up, a cloud covered the
tabernacle, namely the tabernacle of the
testimony: and at even there was upon
the tabernacle, as the appearance of fire
until the morning. 16 So it was alway:
the cloud covered it by day, and the
appearance of fire by night.
17 And when the cloud was taken up
from the tabernacle, then afterward the
children of Israel journeyed: and in the
place where the cloud abode, there the
children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the Lord the
children of Israel journeyed, and at the
commandment of the Lord they pitched:
as long as the cloud abode upon the
tabernacle, they lay still.
19 And when the cloud tarried still upon
the tabernacle a long time, the children
of Israel kept the watch of the Lord, and
journeyed not. 20 So when the cloud
abode a few days upon the tabernacle,
they abode in their tents according to the
commandment of the Lord: for they
journeyed at the commandment of the
Lord.
21 And though the cloud abode upon the
tabernacle from even unto the morning,
yet if the cloud was taken up in the
morning, then they journeyed: whether
by day or by night the cloud was taken
up, then they journeyed. 22 Or if the
cloud tarried two days or a month, or a
year upon the tabernacle, abiding
thereon, the children of Israel abode
still, and journeyed not: but when it was
taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the Lord they
pitched, and at the commandment of the
Lord they journeyed, keeping the watch
of the Lord at the commandment of the
Lord by the hand of Moses.