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¹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,² Moreover let the sons of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.³ In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, you shall keep it.⁴ And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, that they should keep the passover.⁵ And they kept the passover in the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.⁶ And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of man, so 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 to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of man: why are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Yahweh in its appointed season among the sons of Israel?⁸ And Moses said to them, Stay, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.⁹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,¹⁰ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey far off, yet he shall keep the passover to Yahweh.¹¹ In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:¹² they shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.¹³ But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbears to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he didn't offer the oblation of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.¹⁴ And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so he shall do: you shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

¹⁵ And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at evening it was on the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.¹⁶ So it always was: the cloud covered it and by night [had] the appearance of fire.¹⁷ And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the sons of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the sons of Israel encamped.¹⁸ At the commandment of Yahweh the sons of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped: as long as the cloud abode on the tabernacle they remained encamped.¹⁹ And when the cloud tarried on the tabernacle many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, and didn't journey.²⁰ And sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they journeyed.²¹ And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or [if it continued] by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.²² Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried on the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the sons of Israel remained encamped, and didn't journey; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.²³ At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they journeyed: they kept the charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.