The passover is commanded again -- The cloud guideth the Israelites.

¹⁾And the LORDLord 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⁾Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

³⁾In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season:; according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

⁴⁾And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

⁵⁾And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai:; according to all that the LORDLord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

⁶⁾And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day:; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:.

⁷⁾And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man:; wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORDLord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

⁸⁾And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORDLord will command concerning you.

⁹⁾And the LORDLord spake unto Moses, saying,

¹⁰⁾Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORDLord.

¹¹⁾The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹²⁾They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it:; according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

¹³⁾But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people:; because he brought not the offering of the LORDLord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

¹⁴⁾And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORDLord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do:; ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

¹⁵⁾And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony:; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were 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 after that 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 LORDLord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORDLord they pitched:; as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.

¹⁹⁾And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORDLord, and journeyed not.

²⁰⁾And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORDLord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORDLord they journeyed.

²¹⁾And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed:; whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

²²⁾Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not:; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

²³⁾At the commandment of the LORDLord they rested in thetheir tents, and at the commandment of the LORDLord they journeyed:; they kept the charge of the LORDLord, at the commandment of the LORDLord by the hand of Moses.