1And 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 , 2Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season . 3In 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. 4And Moses spake unto the children of Israel , that they should keep the passover . 5And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai : according to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so did the children of Israel . 6And 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 : 7And 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 LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel ? 8And Moses said unto them, Stand still , and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you. 9And the LORD spake unto Moses , saying , 10Speak 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 LORD . 11The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs . 12They 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. 13But 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 LORD in his appointed season , that man shall bear his sin . 14And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD ; 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 .
Guidance by the Cloud and Fire
15And 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 . 16So it was alway : the cloud covered it by day , and the appearance of fire by night . 17And 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 . 18At 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 rested in their tents. 19And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days , then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD , and journeyed not. 20And so it was , when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle ; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed . 21And 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 . 22Or 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 . 23At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed : they kept the charge of the LORD , at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses .