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,
2The children of Israel shall also celebrate the Passover at the time appointed thereunto.
3In 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.
4Then Moses spake unto the children of Israel, to celebrate the Passover.
5And 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.
6And 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.
7And 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?
8Then 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, 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.
11In the fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it: with unleavened bread, and sour herbs shall they eat it.
12They 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.
13But 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.
14And 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.
15And 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 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 afterward 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 lay still.
19And when the cloud tarried still upon the Tabernacle a long time, the children of Israel kept the watch of the Lord, and journeyed not.
20So 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.
21And 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.
22Or 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.
23At 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.