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The Passover

¹ Thus Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in ^(C1)the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,² "Now, let the sons of Israel observe the Passover at ^(C1)its appointed time.³ "On the fourteenth day of this month, ^(F1)at twilight, you shall observe it at its appointed time; you shall observe it according to all its statutes and according to all its judgments."⁴ So Moses ^(F1)told the sons of Israel to celebrate the Passover.^5 (C1)And they celebrated the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; ^(C2)according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did.⁶ But there were some men who were ^(C1)unclean because of a ^(F1)dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; so ^(C2)they came near before Moses and Aaron on that day.⁷ And those men said to him, "We are unclean because of a ^(F1)dead person. But why are we restrained from bringing near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?"⁸ Moses therefore said to them, "^(F1)(C1)Wait, and I will listen to what Yahweh will command concerning you."

⁹ Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,¹⁰ "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead ^(F1)person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, celebrate the Passover to Yahweh.¹¹ 'In the second month on the ^(C1)fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they ^(C2)shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.¹² 'They ^(C1)shall leave none of it until morning ^(C2)nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall celebrate it.¹³ '^(C1)But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet ^(F1)neglects to celebrate the Passover, that ^(F2)person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not bring near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time. That man ^(C2)will bear his sin.¹⁴ '^(C1)If a sojourner sojourns among you and ^(F1)celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its judgment, so he shall do; you shall have ^(C2)one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native of the land.'"

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

¹⁵ Now on ^(C1)the day that the tabernacle was erected ^(C2)the cloud covered the tabernacle, the ^(C3)tent of the testimony, and ^(C4)in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle until morning.¹⁶ So it was continuously; ^(C1)the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.^17 (C1)Now whenever the cloud would go up from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.¹⁸ At the ^(F1)command of Yahweh the sons of Israel would set out, and at the ^(F1)command of Yahweh they would camp; ^(C1)as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped.¹⁹ Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, ^(F1)the sons of Israel would keep the charge of Yahweh and not set out.²⁰ If ^(F1)sometimes the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle, ^(C1)according to the ^(F2)command of Yahweh they remained camped. Then according to the ^(F2)command of Yahweh they set out.²¹ If ^(F1)sometimes the cloud ^(F2)remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was lifted in the morning, they would move out; or if it remained in the daytime and at night, whenever the cloud was lifted, they would set out.²² Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, dwelling above it, the sons of Israel remained camped and did not set out; but ^(C1)when it was lifted, they did set out.^23 (C1)At the ^(F1)command of Yahweh they camped, and at the ^(F1)command of Yahweh they set out; they kept the charge of Yahweh, according to the ^(F1)command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.