Numbers:9

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* And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai , in the second year after their coming out of the land of Egypt , in the first month , saying , * That the children of Israel shall prepare the passover –lamb at its appointed season . * On the fourteenth day of this month , toward evening , shall ye prepare it at its appointed season : according to all its ordinances , and according to all its prescribed rules , shall ye prepare it . * And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel , that they should prepare the passover –lamb . * And they prepared the passover –lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month toward evening in the wilderness of Sinai : according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses , so did the children of Israel . * But there were certain men , who had been defiled by the dead body of a man , and they could not prepare the passover –lamb on that day : and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day . * And these men said unto him , We are defiled by the dead body of a man : wherefore shall we be kept back , so as not to offer the sacrifice of the Lord at its appointed season in the midst of the children of Israel ? * And Moses said unto them , Wait ye , and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you . * And the Lord spoke unto Moses , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , saying , If any man whatever should be unclean by reason of a dead body , or be on a distant journey , among you or your posterity : yet shall he prepare the passover –lamb unto the Lord ; * In the second month on the fourteenth day toward evening shall they prepare it , with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it . * They shall leave none of it until morning , and no bone shall they break on it : according to the whole ordinance of the passover –lamb shall they prepare it . * But the man that is clean , and is not on a journey , and forbeareth to prepare the passover –lamb , even that same soul shall be cut off from his people ; because the offering of the Lord hath he not brought at its appointed season , his sin shall that man bear . * And if a stranger sojourn among you , and will prepare the passover –lamb unto the Lord : according to the ordinance of the passover –lamb , and according to its prescribed rule , so shall he prepare it ; one statute shall be for you , both for the stranger , and for the native born in the land . * And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of the testimony : and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire , until morning . * So it used to be always : the cloud covered it , and the appearance of fire by night . * And as the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle , then after that did the children of Israel journey forward : and in the place where the cloud halted , there did the children of Israel encamp . * At the order of the Lord did the children of Israel journey forward , and at the order of the Lord they encamped : all the days that the cloud abode upon the tabernacle did they remain in camp . * And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days , then did the children of Israel keep the charge of the Lord , and journeyed not forward . * And at times it was , that the cloud remained but a few days upon the tabernacle ; at the order of the Lord they abode in camp , and at the order of the Lord they journeyed forward . * And at times it was , that the cloud remained from evening until morning ; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning , they journeyed forward ; or a day and a night , and when the cloud was taken up , they journeyed forward ; * Or two days , or a month , or a year ; so long as the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle , to remain thereon , did the children of Israel remain encamped , and journeyed not forward ; but when it was taken up , they journeyed forward . * At the order of the Lord they remained in camp , and at the order of the Lord they journeyed forward : the charge of the Lord they kept , at the order of the Lord by the hand of Moses .

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