1And Jehovah 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 , 2Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season . 3In the fourteenth day of this month , at even , ye shall keep it in its appointed season : according to all the statutes of it , and according to all the ordinances thereof , shall ye keep it . 4And Moses spake unto the children of Israel , that they should keep the passover . 5And 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 Jehovah commanded Moses , so did the children of Israel . 6And 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 : 7and those men said unto 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 Jehovah in its appointed season among the children of Israel ? 8And Moses said unto them , Stay ye , that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you . 9And Jehovah spake unto Moses , saying , 10Speak unto 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 unto Jehovah . 11In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it ; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs : 12they shall leave none of it unto the morning , nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it . 13But the man that is clean , and is not on a journey , and forbeareth to keep the passover , that soul shall be cut off from his people ; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season , that man shall bear his sin . 14And if a stranger shall sojourn among you , and will keep the passover unto Jehovah ; according to the statute of the passover , and according to the ordinance thereof , so shall he do : ye shall have one statute , both for the sojourner , and for him that is born in the land.
Guidance by the Cloud and Fire
15And 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 . 16So it was alway : the cloud covered it , and the appearance of fire by night . 17And 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 . 18At the commandment of Jehovah the children of Israel journeyed , and at the commandment of Jehovah they encamped : as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped . 19And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days , then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah , and journeyed not . 20And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle ; then according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped , and according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed . 21And 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 . 22Whether 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 . 23At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped , and at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed : they kept the charge of Jehovah , at the commandment of Jehovah by Moses .