Números 9

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in the wildernes of Sinai, in the first moneth of the second yeere, after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

² The children of Israel shall also celebrate the Passeouer at ye time appointed thereunto.

³ In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according toEven in all points as the Lord has instituted it.all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

⁴ Then Moses spake vnto the children of Israel, to celebrate the Passeouer.

⁵ And they kept the Passeouer in the fouretenth day of the first moneth at euen in the wildernesse of Sinai: according to all that the Lord had comanded Moses, so did ye children of Israel.

⁶ And there were certain men, who were defiledBy touching a corpse, or being at the burial.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 notOr, celebrate the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month.offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

⁸ Then Moses saide vnto them, Stande still, and I will heare what the Lorde will commande concerning you.

⁹ And the Lord spake vnto 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, yetAnd cannot come where the tabernacle is, when others keep it.he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.

¹¹ The fourteenth day of theSo that the unclean and those who are not at home, have a month longer granted to them.second month at even they shall keep it, [and] eat it with unleavened bread and bitter [herbs].

¹² They shall leaue none of it vnto the morning, nor breake any bone of it: according to all the ordinance of the Passeouer shall they keepe it.

¹³ But the man that [is] clean, and is not in aWhen the Passover is celebrated.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.

¹⁴ And if a stranger dwell among you, and wil keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord, as the ordinance of the Passeouer, & as the maner thereof is, so shall he do: ye shall haue one lawe both for the stranger, and for him that was borne in the same lande.

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 theLike a pillar, read (Exo_13:21-22).appearance of fire, until the morning.

¹⁶ So it was always: the cloude couered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

¹⁷ And when the cloude was taken vp from the Tabernacle, then afterwarde the children of Israel iourneyed: and in the place where the cloude abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.

¹⁸ At the commandment of theWho taught them what to do by the cloud.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.

¹⁹ And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept theThey waited when the Lord would signify either their departure, or their abode by the cloud.charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

²⁰ So when the cloud abode a few dayes vpon the Tabernacle, they abode in their tents according to the comandement of ye Lord: for they iourneyed at the commandement of the Lorde.

²¹ And though the cloud abode vpo the Tabernacle from euen vnto the morning, yet if the cloude was taken vp in the morning, then they iourneyed: whether by daye or by night the cloude was taken vp, then they iourneyed.

²² Or if the cloude taryed two dayes or a moneth, or a yeere vpon the Tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel abode still, and iourneyed not: but when it was taken vp, they iourneyed.

²³ At 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 theUnder the charge and government of Moses.hand of Moses.