Old Testament · Numbers

Numbers 9

The Second Passover

(Exodus 12:1–13)

1And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year of their going out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying: 2"And let the children of Israel make the Passover in its appointed time (mo-ed). 3On the fourteenth day in this month, between the evenings, you shall make it in its appointed time (mo-ed); according to all its statutes^a and according to all its judgments^b you shall make it."

4And Moses spoke to the children of Israel to make the Passover. 5And they made the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded^c Moses, so the children of Israel did. 📊 Chart

6And there were men^d who were unclean by the soul^e of a man^f, so that they could not make the Passover on that day; and they came near before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 7And those men said to him: "We are unclean by the soul of a man; why should we be kept back so as not to bring near the offering of the LORD in its appointed time (mo-ed) among the children of Israel?"

8And Moses said to them: "Stand, and let me hear what the LORD will command concerning you."

9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 10"Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Any man, any man of you or of your generations who shall be unclean by a soul or on a journey afar off, yet he shall make a Passover to the LORD. 11In the second month, on the fourteenth day, between the evenings, they shall make it; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 12They shall not leave any of it until the morning, nor break a bone in it; according to all the statute^g of the Passover they shall make it.

13But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and forbears to make the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples; because he did not bring near the offering of the LORD in its appointed time (mo-ed), that man shall bear his sin.

14And if a sojourner sojourns with you and will make a Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its judgment, so shall he do; one statute shall be for you, both for the sojourner and for the native of the land."

The Cloud above the Tabernacle

(Exodus 40:34–38)

15And on the day that the tabernacle^h was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tentⁱ of the testimony^j; and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle as the appearance of fire, until morning. 16So it was continually: 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 settled, there the children of Israel encamped. 18At the mouth of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the mouth of the LORD they encamped; all the days that the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped.

19And when the cloud prolonged upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge^k of the LORD and did not journey. 20And there were times when the cloud was a number of days upon the tabernacle; at the mouth of the LORD they encamped, and at the mouth of the LORD they journeyed. 21And there were times when the cloud was from evening until morning, and the cloud was taken up in the morning, and they journeyed; or by day and night, and the cloud was taken up, and they journeyed.

22Whether two days, or a month, or days, when the cloud prolonged upon the tabernacle, abiding upon it, the children of Israel remained encamped and did not journey; but when it was taken up they journeyed. 23At the mouth of the LORD they encamped, and at the mouth of the LORD they journeyed; the charge of the LORD they kept, at the mouth of the LORD by the hand of Moses.